Can imagine how triggering it would be if the dead continued to post on their social media from the afterlife?
Today there seems to be an increased obsession with remaining youthful-looking forever and thinking it will postpone our fates. Newsflash – we all die sometime.
And so we come to the theme of the new short The Hereafter, where we find the latest gadget is the selfie casket, which allows our deceased to keep snapping.
A brother and sister duo with a strong religious background, pitch this horrific idea as giving buyers ‘an eternity of happiness’.
With this concept, we follow a father of a terminally ill teenager Olive, who is considering investing, while she is still alive.
Although littered with pitch-black humour, The Hereafter also finds an emotional balance to its tough subject matter.
It builds up to what feels like is going to be an explosion of rage, but it veers into a more sombre direction; which is ultimately what death brings.
An engrossing social commentary on living, dying and how social media has poisoned our lifestyles and in this case after-lifestyles.
The Hereafter screens as part of HollyShorts Film Festival 2023.
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