Talk:After.Life

Ambiguous?
From how I understood the ending, it is not at all that ambiguous if Eliot is a serial killer or not, if not for the bromium and the side story of the boy Jack, for one quite notable detail: Eliot pokes a stick inside Paul's chest that kills him - we see him convulse (supposedly while dying, or why else convulse just then?). This was explicitly not done to Anna - who was kept alive and talked to, not at all cut up but simply un-dressed by Eliot. I will change the article in this respect and hope you agree. The Growl (talk) 03:56, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

In the DVD extras there is an interview with the director. She states without doubt that Anna WASN'T dead during the film. Cls14 (talk) 23:47, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

The only difficulty with the argument that Anna was alive is the ending. It is fairly clear when Anna and Paul are at the cemetery, and Paul hears Eliot working on him, that the digging up of Anna was only a vision, and that Paul did indeed die - or at least have an accident - before actually getting to the cemetery. The ending is consistent only with Anna being dead all along. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 05:10, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

If the director really said that without qualification, then she didn't read her own bloody script. The cops refer to the coroner's report FFS. Eliot runs a funeral parlour, not a morgue (I had to change that just now). He gets the corpses many hours after they've been pronounced dead. The idea that he is somehow receiving people who are alive is ridiculous. Now, all that being said, maybe the writer/director just didn't reveal enough: it is true that Eliot says that the boy and Jesus (and maybe himself) had the same gift, and that Jesus raised Lazarus. So it could be that the reason she appears to be breathing is that she really is, but only because of his gift: he doesn't merely hear the dead, he keeps them from completely passing on and perhaps even has the power to fully raise them. It could also be that when he seemed to offer her the choice of returning to life (he even asks what she would do if she could live again), and she decides she's really better off dead, that this is a test--which everyone in his experience seems to fail. He keeps them hovering between life and death, could resurrect them if they passed the test (a bit arbitrary, but then he is shown repeatedly to have a dark and sinister streak throughout the film, lying to Anna, painting a clown face on one of the corpses, etc.). I get why a lot of critics hated this film: the subject matter is intensely unsettling in our culture, it's showing us what we most don't want to see and in a way that's deeply troubling and genuinely horrifying. But I think the ambiguities of the film have been overlooked and the story is subtler than most viewers realize: it's not a question of 'was she alive after all' it's that there's more to Eliot's power than he's letting on. Sorry for the essay but I just saw the film and was thoroughly rivited by it. ZarhanFastfire (talk) 06:07, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

No supernatural
There's no supernatural elements in the film. Except for the fictitious chemical Hydronium Bromide, it all pretty much follows the laws of nature. Slight Smile  00:19, 6 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Well actually if the basis of the film is that Anna is dead, there is a supernatural element! I think you can only say that there is nothing supernatural if Anna is alive all along, which is not clear.124.197.15.138 (talk) 07:30, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
 * And see above, just now. ZarhanFastfire (talk) 06:10, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

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A sequel?
The film is not going to have a sequel ? --Rachid ounes (talk) 14:34, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

topic a bout after life
topic a bout after life 61.5.205.123 (talk) 13:26, 15 November 2023 (UTC)