Hereafter - No View Is A View.

★★★☆☆

'Hereafter' is more about 'here' than 'after'; more about people facing death than death itself; more about how to live with death than how to run away from it. Clint Eastwood cares more about how people think of death and its impact on them than how it is like or whether there's an afterlife.

Three different persons in three different places dealing with the same thing-death. A woman who's survived the Tsunami; a boy who's lost his twin brother; and a male psychic who can tell people's past simply by touching their hands. They all have their own struggles and difficulties. They're all being struck by the matter of death. In the end, their paths collide to tell a fact that the near-death experience is universal, but never is the hereafter; that we're all going somewhere unknown; that we're all ignorant of things beyond death.

There's nothing religious in 'Hereafter'. It has no view on 'afterlife' or whatsoever. I don't know what it's exactly about as a matter of fact. I guess a movie without a view is like a person without the spine. It's not impressive after all. Maybe... it does have a view... that is... 'I don't know things hereafter. I don't know yet.'