
My All Time Favorite Movie Is…
My all time favorite #1 movie is Defending Your Life. A film that came out in 1991 featuring Meryl Streep and Albert Brooks. I remember seeing it as a kid on cable TV on a weekend afternoon. I was a young teenager watching this movie and it pulled me in to be glued to the screen with a similar sensation to Deja Vu flowing through my body. Although at the time I’ve never seen this movie before, the subject matter felt just so familiar that it gave me a bit of a out of body experience because my subconscious was activated while watching.
So what is this movie about and what makes it so special? Check out the description: “Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) isn’t having a good week. For starters, he died after he got hit by a bus. Then he discovers that in the afterlife he must defend his actions on Earth in order to ascend to a higher plane of existence. While awaiting judgment, he falls in love with Julia (Meryl Streep), whose near-perfect life on Earth seemingly makes her a shoe-in for ascension. However, Daniel’s actions in his lifetime might not be enough for him to move on.”
For us spiritual folks, how’s that overview sound to you? I’ve never seen a movie show the stages of what happens when we pass. It displays comedy and spirituality to a perfectly executed balance. It has life reviews, past-life information, spiritual counselors, Akashic records, fear, judgment, self-reflection, love and an all you can diet when we get back up there! Although the movie doesn’t use terms like “spiritual counseling or spirit guides” it shows them in a court setting with lawyers and judges all gathering to analyze Albert Brooks’ life. The lawyers choose specific clips of Albert’s life to show in court which is displayed on a projector screen. Just like Akashic, our lives are all being recorded and these lawyers can bring up the date and time of precise life events to decide if we are ready to ascend based on our actions in this incarnation. In spiritual terms there’s the understanding of a “life review” so you can see how similar this movie feels when you watch and it how familiar it all feels.
Albert Brooks wrote this movie and he just nails it. He did it subconsciously. This actually is very common for humans to do. You can see it in books, movies, music, architecture, engineering, technology, paintings and so much more. It often goes unrecognized, but our memories and past-life skills get incorporated into our time here. In the right settings humans can be so creative, so smart in the development of technology amongst a wide range of many other talents that at times you have to really step back and respect it to the highest degree.
For the sake of this article, here are my top 5 all time favorite movies:
Defending Your Life
The Revenant
SlumDog Millionaire
Stand By Me
American Beauty