In contemporary Canada, lawyer Stephens came to the small town of Sumden in British Columbia. There has just been a car accident here, which has caused panic and the town is paralyzed. It is said that the female driver Dolores was driving the school bus of the local school just after leaving an ice-covered road, she suddenly fell into the frozen lake. There were 22 students in the car and 14 people were killed. Stephens' trip was to mobilize the distressed parents of the students to unite and sue the car company. No matter what the problem was solved, he promised to act as a prosecution lawyer without any remuneration. Stephens approached Wendell and Lisa, the owner of the local motel, and wanted to solicit their opinions on how to deal with the grieving parents of students. He also met the female driver, Dolores, and listened to her statement about what happened before and after the car accident. The parents of the students who first signed and agreed to sue the car company were Otos, Hartley, and Wanda. Their adopted son, Bell, unfortunately died in an accident. Then Lisa also signed, followed by Sam and Mary, their daughter, Nicole, who survived, but was half paralyzed and in a wheelchair. However, Stephens also ran into a nail: Billy, the garage owner who lost two children in a car accident, threatened to use force against Stephens and advised other residents of the town to ignore this nosy lawyer. The lawsuit did not go smoothly. When Nicole was summoned to give testimony on her own experience, she almost completely ruined their painstakingly managed lawsuit. Although she had vowed not to "lie", she said Dolo Reese drove too fast. Stephens stayed alone to be punished, and the entire village became stronger. Everyone united and worked together to overcome the devastating consequences of the disaster.
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The Sweet Hereafter movie plot
2022-01-08 08:03
Extended Reading
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Tiana 2022-03-18 09:01:05
I like how mysteriously fairytales intertwine with our reality of suffering. It's as if we're going through life with half-awaken dreams and the truths are written plainly in front of us and in simplicity, but we are too bothered to see.
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D'angelo 2022-03-15 09:01:05
Probably the closest Igo Young to Lynch and PTA. The damaged school bus is a coffin enchanted by time, summoning a traumatic past time in the distorted metal frame. On the other hand, this kind of trauma may also be a possibility of returning to the past, at the cost of having to make others continue to retrospectively reconstruct. In the film, along with the Puritan-like lawyer's imagination of conspiracy theories, the typified "investigation" itself is disconnected from the writing of the group image of the small town. Therefore, two incidents occurred in the "past" where the film could not be further differentiated. Therefore, under the appearance of his "charity" is the deliberate dizziness of the incident. But Atum Igoyang did not create a similar narrative trajectory. On the contrary, in "Sweet Afterlife", with the onion narration of different characters, we can distinguish the two distinct textures of the image: for the lawyer, he either refuses to narrate, or he is condensing the image like an icon painting. The lieutenant consecrated the event, and the movement or rotation of the camera's ritual sense replaced the movement of the characters inside the screen, just as the film opened with an imaginary originality.
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Nicole: No matter what I'm asked I'll tell the truth.
Mitchell Stephens: It's not going to be easy Nicole.
Nicole: I won't lie.
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Mason: Nicole, did the Pied Piper take the children away because he was mad that the town didn't pay him?
Nicole: That's right.
Mason: Well, if he knew magic, if he could get the kids into the mountain, why couldn't he use his magic pipe to make the people pay him for getting rid of the rats?
Nicole: Because... he wanted them to be punished.
Mason: So he was mean?
Nicole: No, not mean, just... very angry.