Defending your Life
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Daniel Miller arrives in Judgment City, the nether land between life and the final resting place in a sea of wheelchairs. Daniel is still too numb to notice the wonderfully droll Disneyesque transportation system. The smiling service members guiding new arrivals is distractingly wonderful. He walks through the hotel lobby in a daze and slumps down in his room too exhausted to comprehend the permanence of his new state of being. In the morning, Daniel must face up to his life in a unique examination of past events.
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Religious Philosophy Interestingly, I had very much the same idea about the afterlife a few years before this movie was released. Although I've never been religious in the traditional sense, I do believe in reincarnation and have for some time. It seems to me that the point of life is to learn from our mistakes, and that this process never really ends, so why should it end after we die? This philosophy is very much in line with many Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism.
My only criticism of the philosophy expressed in the movie is that the main importance seems to be placed on oneself and not so much on how well one treats others. For instance, Daniel gets criticized a couple times for not having made enough money. Although his prosecutor says that it's not about money but about fear, it still seems to me that the emphasis was on the fact that he hadn't been good enough to himself. [1]
