…leave a good-looking corpse
Taking us into the world of undertakers, this movie alternately offers us our own feelings of revulsion at the physical fact of death as well the humor that naturally comes from this fear as a means of dealing with it. This fear is here particularized as if death were an infectious disease and the mere touching of a corpse would induce death or make one somehow unclean.
The deaths here also concern those of the paths taken in life that lead nowhere and, when this is accepted, are left to die before this acceptance leads-on to new goals and opportunities. Thus, the film is more about grieving than dying; and finding one's true vocation from the ashes of the childhood one must leave behind to die.
The characterization is excellent and serves the themes perfectly. Like Field of Dreams, this understands grief in a way few movies ever dare. Impossible not to be affected by this.
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