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Sunday, January 6, 2008

Love of self














The Movie, “Defending your life” is one of the most interesting and thought-provoking movies regarding the life after death. In this movie, Albert Brooks dies of a car accident and wakes up in a “judgment city”, where some kind of judgment about previous life of the dead people is taking place. The “judgment” is not a type of jurisdiction occurring on the earth. The dead people were given a chance to review his/her life and to proceed to more advanced or newer circumstances based on what he/she has done.

One of the interesting scene of the movie was Albert’s dinner with his reviewer, Michael Durrell. Michael was curious about what his life looked like. To quote:


Michael: Did you give a lot to the charity?
Albert: What do you mean a lot?
Michael: A lot of money, donate thing. This isn’t a good or bad thing. It’s just really out of curiosity.
Albert: I gave a lot to people on the street but never did get a receipt.
Michael: There is really one person you were really cheap with. Over and over again. I wish you were more generous with him.
Albert: Who?
Michael: YOU!

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