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Jan 5th, 2012 at 2:01am
 
I have noticed that more people are accepting an afterlife and a lot of movies often depict the afterlife in a way that, interestingly enough matches the focus level system concept.

1. First you die and it's "your party" you are in your own little world of your creation.
2. Secondly, you are met by someone to help guide you.
3. Thirdly, you move on to.... ???????

Movies with this concept:

What Dreams May Come
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows pt. 2

Can anyone think of any others?
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Reply #1 - Jan 5th, 2012 at 4:49am
 
The lovely bones.
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Reply #2 - Jan 7th, 2012 at 5:13pm
 
Perfect! Parts of that movie were actually filmed in my state only a short 20 minute drive from me! I was trying to remember the name of that movie but it was lost to me!


I am sure there have to be more out there but the idea is movies that have the basic afterlife concept I listed above which I feel is relative to the focus level concept somewhat.
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Reply #3 - Jan 10th, 2012 at 7:27am
 
Inception
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Reply #4 - Jan 10th, 2012 at 5:31pm
 
The retrieval scene in "What Dreams May Come" is one of the most provocative scenes about the afterlife in movie history.  But the movie itself is too cheezy for me to show in my church's potluck dinner--spiritual movie nights.  The best movie of this sort is "It's a Wonderful Life," but almost everyone has seen it. 

I would make this twofold claim: (1) There has never been a first-rate movie on the life of Jesus, that adequately takes modern scholarship and cultural analysis into account. (2) There has never been a first-rate movie on the afterlife that takes the best paranormal evidence into account.  I like to imagine what such a movie on either topic might entail and long for the day when some creative genius makes these movies.
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Reply #5 - Jan 12th, 2012 at 5:16pm
 
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Reply #6 - Jan 14th, 2012 at 6:49am
 
Inception is about dreams, not the afterlife.

Vicky, I have never heard of that movie, is it really with this type of afterlife theory in it?
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Reply #7 - Jan 14th, 2012 at 11:13pm
 
Yes, it's not what you think it is at first.  His life after Vietnam is falling apart and he's having flashbacks and weird things happening like seeing his dead son.  At the end you find out he never came back from the war.  When he's dying you figure out that he is finallly figuring out that he's dead, and you see his dead son walking him up a flight of stairs to take him into the light.
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