After Life

For me, this movie was so very hard to sit through. It was slow, didn't really keep my attention, and I never knew when or how it was going to end, I had no aim or idea of where they were trying to take us.

The concept of having just one memory to take with you and relive forever is quite an unsatisfying thought. No matter what memory you choose you'd probably get bored of it eventually. Of course it begs the question, if you had to choose what would you choose? A childhood memory? But then you'd forget all of your high school and college friends, if your younger sibling wasn't born yet you wouldn't know them either, you wouldn't know their grown-up self. Would you choose your wedding? Your first love? There are countless choices stuffed up in our brains.

I think I personally would have to ask to look over the tapes of my life, because I have an awful memory and more than anything even if everything's going to be erased I'd like to look at all these memories that I haven't seen because I don't remember them. I want to remember more about my childhood, and other things later on that I may have forgotten.

Movies like After Life present you with an almost impossible or just overall unsettling question that makes you not want to answer, but also provokes thought at the same time. That sounds like it sucks but I wonder what I WOULD choose in that situation...