First, I liked the movie. If you're a baby-boomer like me, or if you have caught any of the old Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In shows, you may remember or have seen Arte Johnson (Tyrone) and Ruth Buzzi (Gladys) doing their park bench skit. Tyrone asks, "Do you believe in the hereafter?" Gladys answers to the affirmative to which Tyrone responds, "Then you know what I'm here after." Classic. It does raise the question. In fact, we could put a question mark in the movie title and it wouldn't detract at all from most of the movies message, which raises more questions? Where do we go when we die? Is it true that we may feel this state of conscious weightlessness? I found it interesting that the movie took a shot at the "religious right." My own biblical beliefs I find not so strangely consistent with much that "Hereafter" had to say about our supposed state of being after death. (Though the movie did not say a lot-which I thought good, it lets the viewer raise their own questions)
Most Christians have heard of the rapture, which comes on Judgment Day, a day in which Jesus himself will supposedly come from Heaven with Angels in train. However, most Christians can't answer where people go NOW, when they die. Do they go to a "purgatory" as Catholics believe "some" will go to, or is there some kind of "intermediate Heaven" until Judgment Day? After Judgment Day the "saved" are supposed to "inherit" a "new earth." I thought the movie gave us a "possible" answer (or two) if not a plausible ones, perhaps even Biblical. My encouragement is to do your own research. There are some pretty important questions to be answered. The answers are there, all you have to do is look and ask.
I especially liked the casting. A lot of people with "imperfections." We used to see more of that in the forties and fifties, but nowadays it seems movies are dominated by a "beautiful" people formula, which I like. However, it's nice to see the contrast occasionally, and not just in comedies! (What does THAT tell you)
Most Christians have heard of the rapture, which comes on Judgment Day, a day in which Jesus himself will supposedly come from Heaven with Angels in train. However, most Christians can't answer where people go NOW, when they die. Do they go to a "purgatory" as Catholics believe "some" will go to, or is there some kind of "intermediate Heaven" until Judgment Day? After Judgment Day the "saved" are supposed to "inherit" a "new earth." I thought the movie gave us a "possible" answer (or two) if not a plausible ones, perhaps even Biblical. My encouragement is to do your own research. There are some pretty important questions to be answered. The answers are there, all you have to do is look and ask.
I especially liked the casting. A lot of people with "imperfections." We used to see more of that in the forties and fifties, but nowadays it seems movies are dominated by a "beautiful" people formula, which I like. However, it's nice to see the contrast occasionally, and not just in comedies! (What does THAT tell you)