In my opinion, this is precisely the most exciting part of this movie - it describes another form of expression of the soul to us in a unique way. After watching it, people can't help but admire the rich imagination and perfect expression of the work.
First of all, if we look at it from a separate mortal lens, we will find that there is a huge conspiracy throughout. The funeral director Eliot and his car appeared at the scene of the accident twice, which is easy to associate with certain It was he who directed the two car accidents, and the two people involved in the car accident had both attended the funeral he presided over, and they were aware of the abnormality at the funeral, and Elliott had a sufficient motive to silence.
There is also a person in the police station who has no intention to say that there is a medicine that can make people fake death. In the movie, the funeral director also explained several times that the heroine was injected with drugs. We can understand that Elliott created a car accident, injected drugs into the heroine Anna to cause suspended animation, and injected drugs several times after that to control Anna’s behavior, causing hallucinations, making her mistakenly think she was dead, and making her mistakenly think it was The soul is talking to Elliot, who has supernatural powers...
From this perspective, it's also a fascinating story.
If the movie seriously explained how the funeral director planned, how the car accident happened perfectly according to his plan;
if the movie added a scene where Elliot was taken away by the police in handcuffs, even if there was only a simple scene, there was no dialogue or any other explanation.
The audience will get great satisfaction and give this movie 4.5 stars, because the whole story is suspenseful, and the audience's reasoning is perfectly confirmed at the end!
To be honest, I have always been suspicious of this in the middle of the movie. When I saw 50 minutes and saw Elliott drive out, I even paused for a while, and went back to watch the scene of Anna's car accident, which confirmed Elliott's accident before the car accident. The car appeared.
But there are a lot of places that don't make sense.
Why is the water running red when Anna washes her hair at the barbershop, and when Elliott washes his hair behind him?
Why did Anna call Paul when Paul couldn't hear when Anna was talking?
The little boy Jack line doesn't make sense either, the fucking look, the chick's funeral, if the movie above is made, it's all redundant.
... There are still many things that don't
make sense. Add God's perspective and everything will be clear. —— What we saw Anna struggling and resisting with Eliot, what she wanted to change, was actually not the movement of the body, but the movement of the soul. These were all seen from the perspective of God, and the movie was shot for us from this angle Look. It's just that this angle is mixed with the angle of the mortal lens.
The red shampoo and the nosebleed in the morning shower just confirmed Elliott's statement that "your blood is no longer running through your body";
Anna called Paul that night, and the call was on, but on another channel , is what we call dreaming, so Paul answered a phone in the dream but the phone was silent;
the little boy was actually talking to his mother's soul, so he looked so godless and even terrifying, it was Finding that he could talk to his dead mother, Jack felt that he was not normal. In reality, he seemed more withdrawn, so he was bullied by the two little boys, and he didn't say anything after the teacher asked him; Lott also said that he first talked to his mother, and they were not mortals, they were psychics.
Jack said that there was something wrong with the chick and it died. In fact, Anna also found that the chick was a little abnormal, but she said that it was just frightened. Here are two people's different perspectives, one from the mortal camera and the other from the perspective. , Jack's psychic eyes saw that the chicken was dying.
Jack buried the chick in the back, and the chick is moving. In fact, it is also from God's perspective. It is the soul of the chick that is moving. In reality, the body of the chick is dead. Otherwise, how to explain such a kind little boy will bury a chicken alive for no reason?
Eliot is actually what our culture calls hermaphrodite, a psychic. So did little boy Jack.
It's not necessarily that Anna and Paul's love is over, causing their lives to be meaningless, and causing their deaths, I've seen someone say that in the comments. Arguing and breaking up are actually quite common, but here is just a reminder of the struggle and entanglement of Anna's soul.
There are a lot of other claims in the comments that try to illustrate philosophically or otherwise the obscure death, the allusion to the meaninglessness of life/life, the walking dead, etc.
I don't think so, the film just wants to express a unique conception and interpretation of the soul. It's just a very clever way of expressing the combination of the negative eye and the positive eye. Everything else is a foreshadowing to make the story go more smoothly and make the movie more attractive. There are not so many metaphors, philosophies...
Just like talking to ghosts and gods in our culture, it is actually a long-standing conception of our soul. , a systematic conception;
the West has another set of conception methods, with another set of interpretations of people, gods, and demons;
and this movie shows us another very unique conception, of course, compared to the one accumulated over the years. The society of ghosts and gods, this is much simpler, it can only be said to be a small fragment.
Like a child saying that the chick died, in fact, he saw that the chick was dying and said it in advance, and it turned out to be the case later. When Elliot saw Anna at the funeral, she knew that her fate was near, and everything that followed was actually planned. Anna saw her teacher's mouth move, maybe it was just a hallucination, or maybe it was because she was close to another. A world, so I could vaguely see that world, and saw her teacher's soul move.
Elliott showed up at the scene of the car accident just because he knew the moment and witnessed it in the past. In the first car accident in the movie, he appeared at the scene, but he did not explain whether he was related to the car accident; in the second car accident scene, the movie explained in detail - he did nothing, just watched quietly, quietly Paul's car has driven, quietly watching the ambulance drive... Like the impermanence of black and white in our culture, people die for their own thousands of reasons, all of which are fate, and have no causal relationship with the impermanence of black and white, just come and see Lively, just come to lead the soul of the deceased.
The souls who just died are naturally reluctant and want to reason with black and white impermanence, but in fact they are all in vain.
The story of Anna and Elliot is actually the same, the difference is that Black and White is a separate ghost identity, while Elliot is an intersex person, the human identity is the funeral host, and the other identity allows him to talk to the soul of the deceased. , to appease them.
The medicine Elliot injected into Anna is actually what he said, it can delay the corruption of Anna's body. When the decay of the body is suspended during the validity period of the medicine, the soul can sleep peacefully in the body; once the medicine is over, the soul will Started messing around, started restless, struggling, wandering. Elliott actually opened the door once to let Anna go out, but when Anna saw the terrifying scene before going out, she honestly did not dare to leave. (Similar to what our culture says about being a lone ghost and a wild ghost)
until the end, the soul and the body are buried in the ground together. At the beginning of the year, Anna's soul was scattered, or as Eliot said, reincarnated.
Eliot's duty is to appease the soul to stay honest before burial, until it is buried with the body for reincarnation, to avoid wandering, wandering is not good for the soul itself or the world, it seems that this is the western saying about the soul. It's not quite consistent, but we figure out what our culture says.
It's messy, but hopefully it can help you understand the movie. Enjoy it! Don't miss such a good movie.
View more about After.Life reviews
