This is the best movie I've ever seen in addressing the issue of the dead returning. There was Ghost, but Ghost didn't deal with social issues like this movie did. You find yourself enthralled with the youthful vitality in adressing social challenges, much like Barbra Streisand did in The Way We Were.
A young social and political activist, Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) falls in love with a young man, Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup), who too has noble ideas and has ambitions to even be president, but then finds himself compromising every step of the way until his true self is lost conceeding to the system. From a Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation perspective, the two were obviously true complements and had past lives together. As he begins to lose her to her true destiny, he begins to fall apart, because he needs her to meet his own true destiny. If he would have met his destiny, perhaps she would not have died in the manner in which she did. And because he loved her, this also caused his soul disorientation, which he acted out quite well and should gotten an Academy Award for it–except good movies with higher messages never get Academy Awards; nor do the best music CDs get Grammys.
We who study the Fifth Epochal Revelation realize that very seldom do those who pass from this world return, but in special situations the Creator Son of our universe does indeed allow such visitations to occur. Usually, like in the story, the reason being that if the deceased soul can reach whomever they are trying to reach, it will benefit others, perhaps hundreds of thousand or even millions of others. The film is very well done in both the acting and technical aspects, and the script is socially- and spiritually-conscious without being fundamental. It is one of those films that you're going to want all of your loved ones (who are adults) to see, that is, if you haven't sold out yourself.
~Van of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
