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Medical student Nelson Wright convinces classmates Joe Hurley, David Labraccio, Rachel Manus, and Randy Steckle to help him discover what lies beyond death. Nelson flatlines for one minute before his classmates resuscitate him. While "dead", he sees a boy he bullied as a child, Billy Mahoney.
- Curiosity Killed The Cat
- Consequences
- Breaking Free of Karma
- How Flatliners Reimagines Hell
- Side Note: The Death Dream Theory
- Finding God
- What to Read Or Watch Next
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...
Flatliners (2017 remake)Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (scientists playing God)The Fly, I Am Legend(scientists playing God)Jul 15, 2024 · A: Flatliners is a movie that follows a group of medical students who conduct dangerous experiments to explore the line between life and death. They intentionally stop their hearts to experience the afterlife and then resuscitate themselves.
Nelson struggles to fend him off and David arrives on the scene just in time to end the hallucination and prevent serious injury to Nelson. Meanwhile, Joe's fiance, Anne (Hope Davis), unexpectedly comes to his apartment, and she breaks off their engagement after discovering his videos.
Aug 10, 1990 · Eventually the movie falls into a disappointing pattern, in which we’re supposed to hold our breath while yet another voyager balances between life and death. One resuscitation is suspenseful. Two are fine.
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.
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Flatliners is a 2017 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Niels Arden Oplev and written by Ben Ripley. A stand-alone sequel to and remake of the 1990 film of the same name, it stars Elliot Page, [a] Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, and Kiersey Clemons.
