The only cinematic visions of the afterlife that are worth a damn are the ones that depict damnation. As long as your hero goes to hell, the audience stays engaged. Move the story upstairs, though, and God help you….
Yet painting and music have long evoked a sense of awe at the prospect of the divine. So it’s not a hopeless task for artists. (Have you heard of Michelangelo? Handel’s “Messiah”?) Shouldn’t moviemakers be able to do the same?
Chris Suellentrop at Wired on Why the Afterlife Is Box-Office Poison
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