If you listen to the director's commentary on the DVD he identifies the purple trees as "Jack-ah-ray-nahs" (sorry, I don't know how it's spelled). These are real trees; in fact they are on the very street that I live on! A friend of mine says the fallen flowers have some kind of sap that makes them stick to car finishes, so keep that in mind if you choose to plant such a tree where you live. Now, as for the movie's ending: horrible! If they would have ended it five minutes before they did, then it would have been perfect. I've read the author's (Richard Matheson) book, and he really threw every concept that Spiritualism advocated into it and that was a mistake. He should have been more discriminating and left out the concept of reincarnation. Reincarnation isn't a choice, it's a punishment! Nobody who exists in the Heaven that's shown in this movie would ever choose to come back to Earth.
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What Dreams May Come
(1998)
To answer "Mwberryman"'s question
6 August 2004
The word you're looking for is "joining" to fill in the blank. The sentence was (Chris) "I tried everything nothing worked." (Annie) "Until..you tried joining me."
As for the movie's reason why suicides go to Hell forever: my interpretation of what "Albert" says is that their minds are sort of trapped in some kind of loop that they can't break out of. Of course, that may be true in some cases of suicides, but hardly all. If there really is an afterlife, those individuals who died suddenly would probably be the ones who would have trouble believing that they're dead.
Also, this movie is based on the book. In the book Annie was not going to spend eternity in Hell, just until she would have naturally died. And in the book none of their (more than two) children died in an accident. The movie did that to manipulate the audience into feeling for Annie. And Chris does interact with others more in the book when he is in the afterlife. In the movie he's usually alone or a bystander.
As for the movie's reason why suicides go to Hell forever: my interpretation of what "Albert" says is that their minds are sort of trapped in some kind of loop that they can't break out of. Of course, that may be true in some cases of suicides, but hardly all. If there really is an afterlife, those individuals who died suddenly would probably be the ones who would have trouble believing that they're dead.
Also, this movie is based on the book. In the book Annie was not going to spend eternity in Hell, just until she would have naturally died. And in the book none of their (more than two) children died in an accident. The movie did that to manipulate the audience into feeling for Annie. And Chris does interact with others more in the book when he is in the afterlife. In the movie he's usually alone or a bystander.
O'Hara's Wife
(1982)
I don't care what others say, I liked it!
19 April 2002
I saw this film over 15 years ago on Cable TV. There are far worse films out there that you can watch. I liked and cared for the characters, and that's more than you can say about a lot of films. And I remember the plot after all this time.
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