“The story is King” says Clint Eastwood and his attraction to the screenplay of Hereafter seems to be that it offered the challenge of linking three fictional lives in France, America and England.
The fact that this story also has elements of a kind of supernatural thriller also appealed more than any serious reflection on what really happens when we die.
Now that he is now in his 80s, one would have imagined that Clint Eastwood would have had more than just an academic interest in the afterlife, but he says that he was drawn to the screenplay by what it said about life rather than death. Continue reading
