Sunday, September 28, 2014
After Life
The premise of the After Life is that when you die you go to a building where you have to choose a memory of when you were alive to keep with you forever when you die. You have three days to choose your memory and then they film it. Now the premise is interesting but the movie really isn't. It isn't bad but there isn't really anything that makes me feel the need to see it again. The movie had some great moments as you here their stories which are funny in some and others less so. Most of the film you follow the workers in the after life. The two main workers are Takashi and Shiori who are seen the most. The other workers have a little development but not to much. Their is a little love triangle thing that Takashi's fiancee married one of the guys who is going through currently. It is nice though to see the sets and them filming the memories. Though for the movie it reminds me of most Oscar movies that are running for film of the year. It's good but I don't feel the need to see it again.
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Yeah, I found it a little strange. Loved the concept, but it was almost like the filmmakers couldn't decide what exactly they wanted to do with it. Like you pointed out, there was some recurring relationships, but they never really went anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI'm the opposite: I would totally watch this movie again. There was so much going on, I feel like I couldn't have caught everything in this movie the first time around. I wonder if, seen a second time, the movie would seem more unified and feel like it had a direction. I've noticed that when I watch an out-of-this-world film (like Miyazaki's stuff), I usually feel like everything was a jumble the first time I see it, and the second time I can see the plot.
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