Deus Ex Machina

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Can someone break this down for me? I’ve read explanations and I’m not grasping it. An example would be great. Cheers y’all

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My favorite example is in Matt Groening’s Christmas animated film, “Olive the Other Reindeer” (it’s great if you like holiday stuff).

Olive is locked in the evil mailman’s van – he’s trying to stop Christmas and Olive needs to stop him. There are piles of mail, and she spots a box addressed to her, that hasn’t been delivered to her house yet. She opens it and there’s a metalworking file in it, so she can cut the lock and escape the truck.

She notices the return address on the box is “Deus Ex Machina”.

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