At the core of humanity’s fear of all that is different
and/or strange is the ultimate embodiment of that fear. The unknown to end all
unknowns, the dark abyss, eternal inferno and pearly gates all wrapped into
one: Death. I’ve discussed before fiction in relation to the idea of avoiding
it entirely through immortality, but there still exists a certain fascination
within us about what lies beyond the veil. I’d even argue that the question of
what happens after that final heartbeat is the source of one of the
longest-running debates in human history: Religion. Do we ascend/descend to
another plane, or just rot in the ground? Personally, while we have access to
enough medical technology to determine what happens to the body post-mortem, I
still think we don’t have the means to absolutely determine what happens beyond
that. As such, any speculation to that end is just that: Speculation. I have no
more right to say that it’s abjectly wrong than anyone else does. With all this
in the melting pot, time to slice into today’s film about what happens when you
mess with the natural direction of life.
