 25 Feb 2007 @ 19:37, by Unknown
"Love's function is to fabricate unknownness."
- E. E. Cummings
Synopsis (Wikipedia):Max Klein is a survivor of a plane crash. Many die, including his business partner. The trauma transforms his entire life. He enters an altered state of consciousness; soon after the crash he even thinks he is dead, and begins rethinking life, death, God, and the afterlife. Existential questions start to preoccupy his life. He moves away from his wife, son, and friends but, encouraged by an aircraft company psychiatrist, he tries to break the depression and apathy of another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who lost her baby son during the flight. Eventually Max's increasingly dramatic attempts at pushing the boundaries between life and death succeed in jolting Carla from her uncertain state. However, after parting company with Carla, Max remains preoccupied, which endangers his relationship with his wife and son. Max has another, more serious near-death experience after eating strawberries, to which he has a severe allergic reaction [an allergy which seemingly he had managed to overcome in his transcendental state in the earlier part of the movie]. He survives and (it is implied) he recovers his emotional connection to his family and the world.
A couple of reviews:
- Spirituality and Practice
- Ronald Bruce Meyer
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