After.Life
Screen Rant reviewsAfter . Life
I ’m trusted that the summary above is no more than what many goodish young males demand to read before dashing off to watchAfter . Life . The picture show is an patently dispirited budget little piece of work , and I was really surprised to see Liam Neeson in it . Must have been one of those movies that looked very challenging in screenplay form .
Paul ( Justin Long ) and Anna ( Christina Ricci ) are a young couple with what seems to be a bit of a stunted relationship . Anna seems to have … issues . She ’s dusty and remote and is taking some sorting of prescription drug medication like it ’s hold out out of stylus . He ’s an coming vernal executive director and she ’s a schoolteacher , and it ’s unclear what either of them are still doing with the other as the kinship has obviously perish far in the south .
Anna feels protective of a little male child called Jack ( Chandler Canterbury ) who is a smooth , sensitive boy who is picked on by his turgid schoolfellow . He feels an attachment to her and seems to be rum about last ( she has a funeral to attend to - of a very old congener or admirer of the family ) . While not bugger off into disputation with her fellow ( who want to suggest wedlock for some strange reason ) she seems to be hallucinating - she sees overhead lights go out behind her as she walk down a hallway and a corpse in a coffin move .
She and Justin have a big gala argument while at a restaurant , and after she storm off she gets in a elevator car fortuity that kill her … or does it ?
Thatis the handsome interrogative sentence upon which the entire plastic film hinges . Liam Neeson plays Eliot Deacon , a mortician who seems alternatively compassionate and menacingly creepy . He claims that he can intercommunicate with the dead right after they ’ve died , and is there to help oneself them with the transition from the world of the livelihood to the afterlife .
It seems the purpose of the movie is to keep jerking the audience back and forth between believing that Anna is , in fact , beat , and that she is not and that he is keeping her prisoner for some reason that only he can penetrate . As to that purpose I ’ll say that the picture is effective : One import I notice myself thinking " Well of course she ’s beat " and the next thinking " Hang on , there ’s something shady going on here with his demeanour . " Watching the motion-picture show you ’ll waver many sentence between those two points of view .
Eliot or else soothe and derides Anna , saying it ’s the same every time - he ’s just there to facilitate and most masses do n’t believe or ca n’t assume they ’re dead , even though they are .
In the interim Paul is having a difficult sentence accepting that Anna is go , especially since the last time he saw her they had a uncollectible line of reasoning . He amount to believe that she is not dead , and small Jack exacerbates that when he says that he saw her standing in a window at the mortuary .
Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson in ‘After.Life’
Liam Neeson is an histrion that I just really enjoy see on the big screen . Here his performance is tone down , prompt me of the initial phone call between him and the kidnapper inTaken : Very even , quiet , humiliated key and a bite wooden ( appropriate to a mortician , I hypothesise ) . Christina Ricci does a nice Book of Job in the persona , transition from denial that she ’s actually dead to banker’s acceptance ( whether it ’s true or not ) . She spends most of the film in a red eluding , but eventually writer / conductor Agnieszka Wojtowicz - Vosloo manages to get her naked for a large part of the film . While that is n’t exactly cause for complaint - it did ( for me , anyway ) bump points off the " legitimate " factor of the moving picture and made it seem more exploitative .
So there ’s nakedness and some gore in the movie ( sometimes combined , which is always unsettling ) . In the end I just require a resolution to the thing and to know whether Eliot was in reality a adept world or a creepy , villainous bad guy - and whether Anna was really dead or not . There was certainly latent hostility throughout the entire film , but I ’m one of those people that only wants to be yank around so many time by a " is it or is n’t it " kind of tale . After a while it just gets one-time .
fundamentally , if you like the sorting of moving-picture show that keep you guessing as to what ’s really going on or if you ’ve missed take care Christina Ricci raw sinceBlack Snake Moan- thenAfter . Lifemight be worth an hour and a one-half of your time .
Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson in ‘After.Life’
