“The Final Of Us” has some fairly unimaginable set design, and Ellie’s bed room isn’t any exception. Practically each inch of her partitions are lined with sketches, posters, journal cutouts, and bits of paper. As a teen, I lined my very own partitions – and college folders, and desk, and laptop computer – with stickers and journal clippings, making an attempt to stuff as a lot of my burgeoning persona as I might into the area that trapped me as I endured the painful weirdness of rising up. It is clear that Ellie does the identical right here, making her room right into a microcosm of discovered objects and visions of the surface world which may assist her really feel rather less fenced-in throughout the Boston QZ.

Numerous the purposefully organized muddle on Ellie’s partitions harkens again to a time earlier than the world ended, and she or he appears to have chosen it considerably at random primarily based on what was out there to her. A poster for “Mortal Kombat II” sits alongside one for Joe Dante’s 1987 flop “Innerspace.” One flier even advertises The White Stripes’ present on the Orpheum on 4/20/03, an actual live performance that within the present’s timeline occurred months earlier than outbreak day. It is possible that Ellie, born post-outbreak, hasn’t really heard these bands or seen these movies, however scavenged the posters someplace as a result of she favored the design. I prefer to think about she thinks “Innerspace,” the bizarre comedy about Martin Quick being managed from inside by a tiny pilot performed by Dennis Quaid, is definitely about area.