after_life mon hirokazu 031008 ... .nom korreda) 050125 ... darn koreeda) 050125 ... raze "it's a movie about what happens when you die and you're sort of in_between, and they're trying to sort of figure out where you go, and they ask each person to come up with a memory that they really remember that was a beautiful memory. and they recreate that memory, and they show it to you, and you sort of ... you're gonna go live forever with that memory. i never told anyone this, but the two most comforting sounds growing up for me were my dad's typewriter and my mom's footsteps. that would be what i would pick to live forever with, 'cause that's when i felt their presence, and they're sort of my favourite people in the world." — winona ryder 240831 ... raze "i saw that human emotions are the sparks that fly when 'truth' and 'fiction' collide. in this film, i wanted to explore the consequences of such collision by investigating the uncertain area between 'objective record' and 'recollection'. although the memories in 'after life' are presented as real experiences that are later reconstructed as film, you can't really distinguish the stories characters tell as 'truth' and the recreations as 'fiction'. they intertwine with great complexity. our memories are not fixed or static. they are dynamic, reflecting selves that are constantly changing. so the act of remembering, of looking back at the past, is by no means redundant or negative. rather, it challenges us to evolve and mature." — hirokazu kore-eda 240831 what's it to you? who go blather from