After Life Reflection

When I think about this film, all I come out with are questions.  Questions like, okay they're here now, but then they leave? Well, where do they go then? And where the heck did all those video tapes come from? And are the camera men and movie production people dead? Where do they come from?  When the girl goes walking in the city, is she invisible to the other "live" citizens?  And what about that sky hole in the hallway?  One day there's snow falling through the open hole, and another day the moon is painted on a hole cover that a weird old man suddenly lifts off, and receives no surprise from the girl?

I thought it was really interesting, and clever in terms of plot line, that those who could not choose a memory, or chose not to choose a memory, were the ones who facilitated the recording of the memories for the newly dead.  

I also really admired the way so much was said without any dialogue, or even music (brooding music when something bad is about to happen; swells of strings when you're supposed to cry) that are such cues in western movies.  So much was said simply through body language, in subtle facial expressions, and in the girl's anger on the snow covered roof.  This was especially prominent in the relationship between the girl and the guy who ends up leaving at the end, having chosen his memory.

And that brought up another interesting thing: well, one has memories after one dies?  And if that memory is all that one has afterwards, can one also remember all of their lives up to that point, for back when they were alive, at that moment, they could recall most of their lives surely?  Or is it merely that one instant and nothing more?  

That seems like it would be a bleak heaven, if that's in fact where they are going.  Although, if one is like that one gentleman, to be able to forget truly would be heaven.