I quite enjoyed this.
Three intersecting stories meet to give one something to truly ponder regarding the concept of afterlife.
Directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen) this is the story of George Lonegan (a psychic portrayed by Matt Damon), Marcus (a British boy whose twin brother just died), and Marie (a French journalist who just survived the tsunami).
Similarly structured to films such as Babel or Crash, the film cuts back and forth between these three stories, each one addressing in its own way the concept of death, an afterlife, and is death really the end? George has a gift that he considers instead to be a curse, Marcus only wishes to communicate with his twin brother and is experiencing a terrible void in his young life since his twin died suddenly in a car accident, and Marie had technically drowned in the tsunami before being revived by locals.
The way the three stories intersect in the end may be a bit too coincidental but it is easily forgiven in this story which in sum is greater than its parts...
