When I first laid eyes on pictures from the movie came and leaked information was sparse, in my head already has a vision of the film - I expected a paranormal mystery thriller with apparitions, quite in contrast Clint Eastwood '(which is one of my favorite directors) usually more plants would be very authentic. But Dirty Harry
remains true to its line and uses the esoteric approaches rather as a framework for a very understandable way and at the bottom story of the remainder comes to dealing with death and its thousand-faces.
life (if such it can be described as such) to death and how it occurs is a question that the man (who is the only animal that is aware of his own mortality) are from the beginning to color their being, and try to answer - especially in art, religion and philosophy . It is precisely this theme drives the film and is portrayed in three parallel storylines.
For the above-mentioned esoteric features makes Matt Damon in the role of the former George medium Lonegan, who lives in San Francisco - he can get in touch with the dead and adjust their messages to their survivors. But his own life by the use of the death so corrupt that he is to enraptured, give up the job. For him, death is a curse - he finds out more about the people, as they often would like, and that it ruined, as in an action-sensitive in a scene with a new acquaintance, whom he had met in a cooking class, emotional represented depressing is everything.
Yet seek him, the people again and again, because the idea for what happens to their loved ones in death, almost insane makes with worry - a constant striving for certainty, which, finding out as George, not as desirable as it is anyone imagines.
The second story is about the French TV journalist Marie Lelay who lived through a near-death experience. This is the pivotal point of the opening sequence, which turns out unexpectedly as a representation of the tsunami disaster, and comes up with a terrifying and spectacular staging. This cut significantly influenced their lives and allows them many things in a really lucid way to see more clearly - and on the constant search for answers they can actually symbolic way their (old) life behind.
The third narrative perspective, in my opinion, the nahegehendste - (!) Because there the only visible place and action determining death and the same as they cover several problem areas - family problems, social ills, drug abuse, single mothers - And a particularly explosive issue in the context of the guiding principle addressed: the death of the twin brother of the English boy Marcus, which is clearly visible, so that a part has passed away from him. This requires that the battered boy on chance to mess even with a drug-addicted mother and ends up in a foster family - but digs much deeper into his custody, as his brother Jason, his alter ego is taken, in death.
Each of them is looking for the answer - just as the spectators. But the movie provides no answer, the visions are in this case only the appropriate action, but far from a hard-and-solid explanation. He puts up with several solutions is, with those of the characters in contact, but he proposes no clear front, and this is one of the positive aspects. The whole New Age "industry" to this human problem is even more in humorous scenes tinged with Marcus as an observer who is at the other end as a loss and only when George finds some peace, ridiculed. Even George himself, as he admits himself, found an answer, as happened after the death looks like, he is de facto only as an agent, and Marie had mentioned a while ago but as near death experiences at the beginning, but it remains unclear whether it until the end not have been her brain was that it has fooled all this.
The film deals with this rather representätiven fates and they deal with death on a timeless level - he is based but on real results, such as the tsunami disaster in 2004 or the attacks in London, anno 2005, mentions but never explicitly a date (and thus are also some anachronisms, such as the presence of the Like / Dislike buttons on the YouTube page, which were introduced only last year to get over,). The beginning of Clint Eastwood usual straightforward and accurate staging of the topic along with a quiet camera operator with the necessary instinct on without ever slipping into sentimentality. Thanks to the virtuous and authentic acting actors, the scenes more like a snapshot from life. A certain clinical, emotional Distance on the one hand through the cool, dreary images that capture the sadness after the death match (high praise directed toward the light!) Can not be avoided, and yet can probably every viewer with the subject and thus identify the characters. In addition, he will also boost their imagination through the question and different story lines (which in the end fit, but are brought together somewhat predictable)
One could accuse the film a certain verbosity, as some sequences are still considered a bit too far in the length - but Clint Eastwood knows, they then sent the last moment but still rumzureißen and to initiate a change of scene. The rhythm does So, even if it will deter some people who have expected a gripping and pulse-driving mystery-thriller.
Although he joined not necessarily to Clint Eastwood's best work may - Hereafter is overall a good, relevant and authentic film with intelligent knitted plot and very interesting topic that is treated sufficiently enough without the ridiculous esoteric drifting.
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