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- Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience - giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.
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Jun 15, 2017 · Science. Real Flatliners Science Reveals What Death Is Actually Like. by Sarah Sloat. June 15, 2017. YouTube/Sony Pictures Entertainment. Medical students turn their own bodies into science...
Oct 4, 2017 · Driven by ambition and curiosity to learn what lies on the other side of death, five medical students deliberately stop their hearts in order to experience "the afterlife" in the new thriller...
Oct 20, 2017 · Scientists studying real ‘Flatliners’ for proof of life after death. Starts at 60 Writers. Oct 19, 2017. Many people report having 'out of body' experiences on the hospital trolley before...
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- Breaking Free of Karma
- How Flatliners Reimagines Hell
- Side Note: The Death Dream Theory
- Finding God
Flatliners sits somewhere between Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and R. L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Like those Gothic horror stories, Flatliners is about scientists who push the boundaries of the impossible … and sin against God and society as a result. Here, Nelson Wright is the ‘mad scientist’ itching to discover what lies ...
The flatliners want to know if near-death tales of bright lights and out-of-body experiences are true. But what they find appears to be hell, i.e., a place where they pay for their sins. Resuscitation breaks them out of the bad place – but they can’t shrug off their punishment so easily. Their sins follow them into reality, where the consequences p...
David breaks free of karma first. Note, though, that he doesn’t engineer this in any particular way. As an adult, he simply acknowledges the way he behaved was harmful, and makes amends. Saying sorry to Winnie Hicks ends his suffering. Whether it makes any real difference to the girl he terrorised is a more complex question. Either way, the film’s ...
Traditional models of the underworld are reassuringly communal places, aren’t they? That is, medieval illustrations of hell may be frightening, but at least they’re crowded. When Dante describes hell in The Divine Comedy, there are so many souls down there it’s like a house party. The damned, we’ve long held, suffer together. We still cling to this...
Flatliners shows us four people whose near-death experiences make them re-evaluate their world view. But another way of inspecting the film is as Nelson’s death dreamfrom start to finish. It begins with Nelson going under and ends when he wakes up. In between, he inhabits a curiously empty world. He lives in a city devoid of bustling side walks, an...
Like the deluded lovers in Alfred Hitchocks’ Rope, Nelson thinks he’s special. Intellect and daring make him an übermensch – a ‘super man’, or superior being. Also like Hitchcocks’ killers, he believes that gives him the right to murder. After his first near-death experience, Nelson feels even more god-like. “Can you hear the traffic on the lake sh...
The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The film was shot on the campus of Loyola University Chicago between October 1989 and January 1990, [4] and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 ( Charles ...
Aug 10, 1990 · Flatliners: Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin. Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
Aug 10, 1990 · So they devise a dangerous experiment in which, one after another, they'll deliberately create a condition of clinical death, sample the afterlife experience, and then be brought back to life by emergency measures. The audacity of this experiment is terrifying and intriguing, and let's face it: It's a great idea for a movie.
