Here's my twopence on the subject. Highly personal, without any research and entirely subjective, taken wholly from Death's first appearance:
First victim is Tiny the tap (little cock), Death enters him with a teeth baring look of orgiastic pleasure. The 'little death' of sex has been enacted. Tiny's face in 'death' is wide-eyed and open-mouthed. The judges had been chasing Tiny through a 'maze', (his sexuality). There is a smell of decay - ie sex. The moralist pronounces consumation a sin, which must result in death. The decay and decomposition could be read as venereal disease. Death has 'come to judge you' - the price of acting.
At the Rabbit Hutch (sex again) Death is drawn by the sound of life - namely dancing, people enjoying themselves, living and acting in the world. There is a lot of flesh on show. Death 'kills' again, saying "I just stick my hand in and ssqueezze." The bodies on the ground look like a post-orgy scence, to which the 'Judge' exclaims - 'What a nightmare'. Death pierces a judge, then a group of men 'shoot' into him. They follow this up by exclaiming: 'We're blowing chunks off him - but he keeps coming.'
Later, Dredd wants to 'fill' Anderson in. She responds by commenting on his 'dirty secrets'. In contacting Death, Anderson adopts an orgiastic expression - head tilted back, nostrils flaming.
Death condemns the living for the crime of living, namely being active, sexual
beings in the world, through choice.
After a veiled masturbation scene with Anderson in her bed, Death enters and consumes her. She carries the 'corpse' of her virginity from the 'morgue' stating that she 'can't - help - myself.' Her old/moralistic self fights to regain control of the beast she carries within. This aspect of her awakened self fights Dredd, only to be overcome by the desire to be 'trapped' forever with the 'beast' inside her, which can't be allowed to get out.
Who is Death - he's the personification of the stultifying morality which condemns human action as unworthy, beastly, decadent, corrupt and unnatural.
As I say, it's my reading, so feel free to disagree.
First victim is Tiny the tap (little cock), Death enters him with a teeth baring look of orgiastic pleasure. The 'little death' of sex has been enacted. Tiny's face in 'death' is wide-eyed and open-mouthed. The judges had been chasing Tiny through a 'maze', (his sexuality). There is a smell of decay - ie sex. The moralist pronounces consumation a sin, which must result in death. The decay and decomposition could be read as venereal disease. Death has 'come to judge you' - the price of acting.
At the Rabbit Hutch (sex again) Death is drawn by the sound of life - namely dancing, people enjoying themselves, living and acting in the world. There is a lot of flesh on show. Death 'kills' again, saying "I just stick my hand in and ssqueezze." The bodies on the ground look like a post-orgy scence, to which the 'Judge' exclaims - 'What a nightmare'. Death pierces a judge, then a group of men 'shoot' into him. They follow this up by exclaiming: 'We're blowing chunks off him - but he keeps coming.'
Later, Dredd wants to 'fill' Anderson in. She responds by commenting on his 'dirty secrets'. In contacting Death, Anderson adopts an orgiastic expression - head tilted back, nostrils flaming.
Death condemns the living for the crime of living, namely being active, sexual
beings in the world, through choice.
After a veiled masturbation scene with Anderson in her bed, Death enters and consumes her. She carries the 'corpse' of her virginity from the 'morgue' stating that she 'can't - help - myself.' Her old/moralistic self fights to regain control of the beast she carries within. This aspect of her awakened self fights Dredd, only to be overcome by the desire to be 'trapped' forever with the 'beast' inside her, which can't be allowed to get out.
Who is Death - he's the personification of the stultifying morality which condemns human action as unworthy, beastly, decadent, corrupt and unnatural.
As I say, it's my reading, so feel free to disagree.