9 But it is just as the Scriptures say,
“What God has planned
for people who love him
is more than eyes have seen
or ears have heard.
It has never even
entered our minds!”
In 1945 the United States Government approached the British Government with a request that the popular film making team Powell & Pressburger should produce a film that would address the grievances of millions of people who had lost family members during The Second World War. The US Government made it clear that they were not seeking another Hollywood style hero drama, rather another approach that lent some credence to the continuation of life following death of the flesh.
The result "A Matter of Life and Death" (1) also known in the United States as "Stairway to Heaven" a very personal perspective, provided soothing balm for many families coping with their trauma, also winning many awards for its willingness to maintain the "quirky" style of story telling that Powell and Pressburger had established through their unconventional film making techniques.
Symbolism is perhaps the only way that human life can visualise life following death of the mortal body.
Here the audience is invited to let their imagination drift into the realm of the dreamer where all is possible unlimited by time and space.
When a boy visiting a dentist's surgery for dental work I predictably arrived too early for my appointment granting me to time to read "Reader's Digest" guaranteed to contain an article by a wordsmith who had undergone a near death experience leading them to reflect on all that they had seen, heard, and experienced in their journey to "Heaven," and back to their living body.
These stories had no impact on me for I had serious doubts that such experiences had occurred,
and took the view that life is for celebrating, thus what ever follows may well be influenced by the life that we live in the here and now.
The viewer of the captioned film will note that the scenes on Earth are filmed in technicolor, whereas the Heaven scenes are shot in monochrome in order to emphasise that the "after life" is black, and white in other words, there are no concealed mysteries troubling the deceased person, worrying whether they will face issues that they cannot comprehend.
This understanding is also known as Enlightenment where all becomes crystal clear.
(1) https://ok.ru/video/383987681934
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