The Five People You Meet In Heaven [DVD]

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Eddie (Jon Voight) is an old man who has spent his whole life doing maintenance at the Ruby Pier amusement park. Today, one of the rides malfunctions and threatens a child's life. As he rushes to save her, he is whisked to Heaven where he meets five people from his past - people he loved and hated, and even one he didn't know at all. When revisiting scenes from his life, you see that things were not always what they seemed. His father rescued his mother from rape, his wife died from cancer, his C.O. shot him to save him, etc. This film is about a man's journey in heaven after he dies. He meets five people in heaven, each teaching him different things that he never knew or understood before.

Who are the 5 People you meet in Heaven? For Eddie, those five people are not quite who he expected. But even so, the 5 People You Meet in Heaven can help you move on to the afterlife, just like they did for Eddie. Eddie’s First Person: The Blue Man Eddie enlisted for the war thinking that it would make him a man. He learned a lot of lessons from his time in the military, especially from his time in captivity. Complicated matters in relationships that are dealt with in the book with such depthness and understanding is really appreciable. After the small funeral, Eddie’s mother was changed. She still spoke and acted as if his father was there. When Eddie tried to remind his mother that his father was gone, she asked where he’d gone off to.

For One More Day

The Blue Man suffered from argyria caused by silver nitrate poisoning, and worked at Ruby Pier's sideshow while it was still open, during the days of Eddie's childhood. However, Hollywood also makes a majority of its movies with an idea of 100 minutes viewing time, give or take a few either way. It's tough for people to sit down and watch a film of 2 hrs. or more in length, because they're now conditioned to watch shorter vehicles. And the story evolved from there. And all the classic questions that I believe WE all are facing now are written so nicely by Albom. With jokes, with poems, with simple everyday words. Albom didn't preach within this book which I think it is the risk of writing such subject - and the fact that he didn't preach makes it universal for all races and religions to read. And be spiritually touched. The way the book starts is like the saying the end is only a new beginning. The beginning is the tragic, horrifying death of Eddie, and the death, or end, is only the beginning to his afterlife and the entry to heaven. The book puts such new perspectives on life to you and gives you knowledge of how to live life to the fullest.

Such is NOT the case with poor old Eddie, who's just died and finally, thankfully, disappeared from this sorry old world. (You will, too, you know. But, I forgot - you’re Teflon Coated…) If heaven truly exists, I sure hope it’s exactly like this! What sounds better than meeting up with loved ones who have gone before and have them explain to you the meaning of your life?

The Five People You Meet in Heaven: Themes

The concept, the story, the lessons, and the idea of heaven- what was there not to like? After Khaled Hosseini and Toni Morrison, if there is an author I can read in one sitting, it is Mitch Albom. Religion and whether or not you believe in heaven or the afterlife is obviously a very personal thing and therefore I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this book to everyone. The book wasn’t overly religious nor was it preachy either, and I do think non-religious people could still enjoy the story, but that’s up to each reader to decide! Even if you haven't read the book, you will be instantly enchanted by the show's believable characters, a story with unexpected twists, lavish settings and even some of the most emotional scenes to be shown on TV (that's really next to the equally powerful montage scenes from Frank Herbert's Children of Dune). Those who have watched Tim Burton's adaptation of Big Fish will also find some similarities in this show too, in terms of its whimsical, fairy tale-like narration. Every story has different angles. It turns out that the young boy chasing the baseball was Eddie on his seventh birthday. Eddie unknowingly killed the Blue Man.

Tala takes Eddie now through “the strong but silent current” of the river. All his pain and weariness is gone, and he feels his body being washed away from his soul. Eddie emerges in a brilliant light and encounters an unimaginable scene. Thousands of people are gathered on a pier; they are there Eddie (John Voight) is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man (Jeff Daniels) explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level. Eddie is lifted by a sudden wind and transported into the mountains. As he walks down a narrow ridge, he realizes that he has regained his aging body, “scars and fat and all.” Eddie comes upon a snowy field in the middle of which is a diner. When he walks up to the door and peers through the glass, he is astonished to see the solitary figure of his father, sitting hunched over in a booth. Eddie pounds on the glass, screaming to his father now in heaven as he had in life; his father, in death, ignores him. An old woman appears and tells Eddie that his father cannot hear him because he is not really there; Eddie is in a part of her eternity, not his father’s. The woman introduces herself as Ruby and says that Ruby Pier is her namesake. Pengorbanan bagian dari kehidupan, bukan untuk disesali jika mengorbankan sesuatu yang berharga, karena kita tidak sungguh-sungguh kehilangan itu, Kita hanya meneruskannya pada orang lain.

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On Eddie's 83rd birthday, an amusement park ride at Ruby Pier (where he is responsible for maintenance) malfunctions due to a damaged cable and stops halfway through the ride. It is a tale of a life on earth. It’s a tale of life beyond it. It’s a fable about love, a warning about war, and a nod of the cap to the real people of this world, the ones who never get their name in lights. Sacrifice is a part of life....Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it...you’re just passing it on to someone else.