marked by appropriate reading selections from Dickens's David Copperfield and concluded by reading a passage from Little Dorrit , Eastwood's latest film unfolds through an elegant paintings, almost unprecedented in the work of American director.
The character played by Matt Damon is a psychic able to communicate with the dead: the simple physical contact with a person allows him to trace the spirit of the deceased and to bring back messages and guidance to the joint alive.
gift or rather curse? Along the same lines of The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg and de The Dead Zone by Stephen King (and also most of the Marvel superheroes), the main character has long since realized that this may prevent him from living a normal life and has given up some time to exercise: you find yourself still, of course, forced to use their gift because of the circumstances of his or pietas.
Eastwood said in the meantime other two stories separated in space: that of the successful French journalist upset by near-death experience and that of the London boy desperate for a way to contact your sister killed in a car accident. The three plans are continually alternated, until the obvious confluence final.
Reflection on the fragility of human existence, highlighted by fast and frightening scenes of "accidents" (tsunami, investment and attack), the story does not develop much history along the lines of "supernatural", the contact with the world of the dead, as the comforting (for living) hope in the existence of a "Hereafter," an otherworldly place where the dead can at least put things in place, communicating with the living. It 'just living on his eyes that Eastwood pin on the effects of separation from their loved one and ways of mourning, placing the case (great?) The existence of a possibility of further contact.
Dickensian themes of family (the story of the twins and the mother addict) and the difficult ascent after the fall (the history of television journalist) are dominant, in fact highlighted by the reading of excerpts from David Copperfield.
More importantly, in interpreting the work, however, seems to be an emphasis on reading the passage from Little Dorrit. The Marshalsea prison for debtors (from which, after long journey, "will execute" Little Dorrit), which dominates the work properly and that Charles Pagetti in his fine introduction Einaudi edition defines "timeless nightmare," is in fact a metaphor for the Platonic body - Prison of the soul. "
hope (certainty, Matt Damon) of the protagonists of Hereafter is that there is a world, even (especially) outside the prison.
Ugo Chickens
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