Movie Shop: After.Life

Life can get interestingly hard. Especially when you die. Imagine, if you will, having a relationship you love. Then imagine seeing it fall apart right before you eyes as you find out that you are going to be left behind for a better job opprotunity. That means that you will be a failure like your mother told you, stuck in the life you always dispised, alone.

And then it happens - you collide with a vehicle and find you are dead and can only sort this out with one person, the man making you perfect for the funeral you never wanted to attend.

In After.Life., everything was laid out wonderfully and the movie kept a question coming back to you. Why is it that this man can see the dead when everyone else cannot? He doesn't really know the answer, saying only that it is a gift he had, but these people are dead - aren't they? They show all the signs of death, look dead to everyone else, and are either really easy to talk into something or are cold and corpsy.

Its a good thing to watch and nice, especially considering how much of it hinges on two people talking.

Had the two people been a different group, I might have disliked this movie. This was not the case, however, and I found that it seemed to know how to pull me in and keep its secrets until the end. And even the end - it is a cold movie with cold things to say, and that ending is especially unkind.
Personally, I loved it and thought it was a great find considering it was just a movie I found with no real fanfare at all.