"Flatliners" is a very original,despite it's morbid theme, and in a way uplifting movie. It shows it's audience that things that we do to others in life that for the most part we may have long forgotten about will come back to haunt us in death. The difference in the film "Flatliners" is that those who died and were hunted by their past sins were given another chance to come back to life and correct or rectify them to those persons who they killed and abused. Person who were victimized by Nelson, Kifer Sutherland, who killed and David, Kevin Bacon, who abused. As well as Joe, William Baldwin,who betrayed and in the case of Rachel, Julia Roberts, drove to their death.
A secret experiment was dreamed up by Nelson and his fellow medical students to see if there's really a life beyond the grave. The students put themselves under, getting clinically flat-lined, and then being brought back to life tell and record what they saw when they were "Dead".
Each student who was put under saw things that they did in life that they thought nothing of and long forgot about with the exception of Rachel. The dead and then revived students then spent the rest of the movie trying somehow to make amends for what they did in order not to have them go insane with guilt.
Admittedly unrealistic the movie has the students get all the medical equipment and drugs that they needed for their experiment and preform it on each other. Right under the noses of the doctors nurses and attendants at the hospital they were at! The students being able to put each other under, from one to five minutes, and then revive themselves was really a bit too much to take. Still you have to give "Flatliners" an +A for originality. Even though the movie had trouble convincing you that the goings on on the screen could have been at all possible in even in the most modern medical facility in the world.
Still "Flatliners" does at least try to confront one of the most profound mysteries, of science and theology, in it's own very strange and peculiar way.
A secret experiment was dreamed up by Nelson and his fellow medical students to see if there's really a life beyond the grave. The students put themselves under, getting clinically flat-lined, and then being brought back to life tell and record what they saw when they were "Dead".
Each student who was put under saw things that they did in life that they thought nothing of and long forgot about with the exception of Rachel. The dead and then revived students then spent the rest of the movie trying somehow to make amends for what they did in order not to have them go insane with guilt.
Admittedly unrealistic the movie has the students get all the medical equipment and drugs that they needed for their experiment and preform it on each other. Right under the noses of the doctors nurses and attendants at the hospital they were at! The students being able to put each other under, from one to five minutes, and then revive themselves was really a bit too much to take. Still you have to give "Flatliners" an +A for originality. Even though the movie had trouble convincing you that the goings on on the screen could have been at all possible in even in the most modern medical facility in the world.
Still "Flatliners" does at least try to confront one of the most profound mysteries, of science and theology, in it's own very strange and peculiar way.