"The Appointment in Samarra" vs. "The Appointment"

The short story "The Appointment in Samarra" by W.Somerset Maugham and the video "The Appointment" actually have alot it common. For one thing, both titles are similar, and the morals are also just as similar.  The moral of "The Appointment in Samarra" was basically that you can not run from death; and the moral of the "The Appointment" was that no one can escape their future. I know that even though the morals sound like they really dont have any thing in common, when you have actually read the story, and watched the clip you realize they do.  

Maugham's short story is about a servant that goes to the market place for his master, and while he is there he bumps in to "Death".  The servant is startled and askes his master if he can take his horse to Samarra to "escape from his death". When the master approaches Death and askes him why he scared his servant, Death replied by saying "It was only a start to a suprise...I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."  Death was basically saying that the servant was going to die today whether or not he stayed in Baghdad.

The video "The Appointment" was about a kid who was turning 21.  As he and a friend were walking they approached a psychic who kept repeating, "You can not escape your future."  Later on in the video, she picks up a card with a knight riding his horse, and on the bottom it says, death.  That symbolizes that the boy is probably going to die, and he might try and run from it.

As you can see, both the short story and the video are both a little eerie, but at the same time both are 100% true!  You can not run from your future, or your death, but in reality you are actually running towards it.