AFTER LIFE (Hirokazu Koreeda)
21 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Film Review Tags: after life, Hirokazu Koreeda
This film showed the way humans recall their memories and then choose the best one. Many scenes in this film showed the interview process run by the counselors. In the early scene, Hirokazu Koreeda set an interesting scene. Each person entering Limbo. Passed through a bright light first. An image of the transition from human life to after life.
I noticed something interesting when a counselor was interviewing an old lady who paid so much attention about plants. First when the camera shot the lady, there’s her hat on the table. The camera only shot half of the hat. But, in the next day, the hat appeared more and more, although still not completely shot until the end of interview. I think this meant that the old lady couldn’t focus her mind on the interview. Some parts of her mind were still going somewhere else.
The process of memory reconstruction was run so professionally. Each person was treated well in every detail. From the way they are interviewed until the final phase, watching the memory reconstructed and then disappearing. So I think they are united as a solid production house crew. 
One thing I couldn’t understand in it, was when Shiori went to a crowd of people in a city. I am thinking whether Shiori walking through real human-crowd or she’s walking through the same world -so everybody’s there was also ghosts.
