Hereafter, those unfinished

There is a lot of controversy over the translation of the title of the film. "From Now on" may sound popular, but "From Life" seems more appropriate. "This is a niche script, and it doesn't tell a story that the public likes to hear. Those contents about the afterlife, the yin and yang realms, and supernatural abilities are actually very idealistic. However, such a script is indeed able to express My point of view on life and death. As long as a small number of fans like it, it is enough." The screenwriter changed hands several times about this story, and it was finally put on the screen, so emotional.
So I saw that those beautiful and suffocating plots were proceeding flatly and straightforwardly under the camera.
French female anchor, lingering in the beach market, picking souvenirs for her lover's children;
Matt in the cooking night school, fell in love with a beautiful woman at first sight;
the young twin brothers did all kinds of lovely behaviors, persistently maintaining the continuation of a single-parent family .
It's just a hunch that these beautiful plots seem a little fragile and are destined to be shattered, but I didn't expect to use death to smash them with one hand.
The people around him have moved forward, and those who cannot accept the death remain in place, wishing to continue to communicate with the dead. Matt in the play seems to have become a connection point, continuing those unfinished life-death exchanges, but no ghosts really appear, and more likely, his near-death experience made him read the thoughts of the widow and saw help. The unfinished complex in the mind of the person has nothing to do with supernatural events.
What he said was not the unfulfilled wish of the dead, but the unwillingness of the living. It turns out that the unbearable pain of life is not the separation of life, but the separation of death.
If I were to translate the title of this film again, I would translate it as "Afterwards".
The story is not about the world after death, but how the living keep life going after death has happened.
Those once beautiful emotions, strong pillars, and dependent objects who accompanied us to grow will still leave in some way.
After we die, we have to choose to let go of the unfinished things left behind.
Many people said that the ending of the film was abrupt, leaving Matt and the little boy with an ending that was too perfect to be true.
But look around, and life isn't all that cruel.
Unemployment, layoffs, replacement by competitors, and irresistible natural and man-made disasters make us so frustrated and unacceptable. But there is still warmth and help. As long as life goes on, there will be care around us.
The moment I let go of death, I finally understand that the suffocatingly beautiful plot will continue, just waiting for us somewhere to experience.

The beauty after that can be stronger and more real.

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