Was so refreshing seeing Walken play a regular guy in this, his fear at realising what their project can do makes you feel for him as things get out of control.
This is an amazing portrayal of the afterlife.......the imagery is stunning......well, we will all find out one day! I loved the part at the end with the angels flying in the presence of God.......
historybuff1964 As someone who does believe in God and afterlife I don’t think this portrayal is good. First of all we have no basis for thinking how it might look/feel except religious texts which usually are written with purpose of describing something metaphysical in relatable terms. In this movie the afterlife is depicted as some sort of ethereal space which is all made of light rays yet there is also a depiction of objects and distance like angels and their movement from one place to another. Instead I think it would contain much more information than any person can sense with all of their senses or think, but whenever there is a light show depiction of afterlife it seems like fewer senses and less information is around you. Imo something like in What Dreams May Come makes sense since it is a more physical world, and more richer senses world. Seems to correspond more to Biblical ideas which is that all humans will be recreated in perfect and immortal bodies that are physical.
@@MrKzup I don’t think it was hell. I think she passed through purgatory on her way to angels flying towards heaven. Kind of like Dante’s Inferno, it was a journey- ( just my personal perception )
As someone who nearly died (4 times reanimated; in coma four a week between life and death) I can say: yup, that was pretty much my experience. Even the hell part. I thought I would burn for all eternity with this... creatures around me. But then I was flying through an ocean of stars and felt so at peace... But at this moment I felt: If I go deeper, my life will be over. And I did not want that so I fought with all the will I had left... and returned! ^^
I just finished watching Brainstorm for the billionth time and was thinking I wish someone cleverer than I would edit together the death journey. Absolutely riveting scenes. Thank you!!!!
mmmbad To me its fears of what humans think its like to cross the threshole of existence as a human back into spirituality. Of course Humans forget a lot of this when they are born into this dimension so going back its an awakening of what was. Its too bad the movie had to be pieced together after Natalie's death. This is one of my favorite movies. I think they got the massage across however. I am wondering if they will ever do a remake of this. its due time for it.
The one knock I have on this scene is that Lillian puts on the device to record. All it's set to do is record what is going on in the mind. Since her soul leaves her terrestrial body, how is it able to record?
Artistic license? Who is to say when we have truly left our physical being, when a number of people have claimed to have come back from that far. Apparently.
Hey folks, this scene, in this movie, is just like any other scene in any other movie about something taking place in someone's mind. It's an artist's conception, and its purpose is to give you an experience. It's as real, or as imaginary, as any other artist's conception of anything. The meaning it has to you is the meaning you give it. It either does, or does not, conform to your personal beliefs. It either will, or it won't, enhance you, transport you, or otherwise provide you with a thought-and-feeling provoking experience of something that almost every human being who has ever lived has wondered about, but about which no human being can ever be a true authority. The fact that one person has one experience after watching it, and another has a different experience, does not mean that one is right and the other is wrong. Watch it, feel it, be moved by it, absorb it, and enmesh it with every other thought and feeling you've ever had about death and the afterlife -- or don't. You will be as right, or as wrong, as everybody else.
I don't believe there is a Hell, but I understand why they included that part because many people do and they wanted to appeal to the largest audience. Otherwise, EXELLENT depiction I think. The memory bubbles mirror many reports NDE people have of a Life Review. This clip doesn't show it, but there's a segment where you are flying through tapes, equipment and the logo of their research lab. I think that served as symbolism of how much Lillian's heart was devoted to her research, so she would totally see those things as manifestations of that on her way beyond our world. And she was probably thinking about how her very last experiment might give her friends actual data about what comes after life.
compared to perfect, pain/disease/death/hurt free eternal "heaven" planet earth IS hell, or at least purgatory where every living thing is guaranteed a death, and the vast majority will be under duress, pain, horrible diseases like cancer, heart attacks, horrible accidents etc
When Lazarus was resurrected by Jesus he never mentioned anything about an afterlife. You would think he would or that it would have been recorded, it's how funny how people would push that.
Craig Sips so you're equating simply losing consciousness to death and the afterlife. And by simply fainting you all of a sudden become the foremost expert on the matter. I guess all of those people who have had near death experiences are all liars. What an egoistical wanker.
Studa Baker Its just an opinion on a TH-cam comments page, no need for hostility. If you want to calm down and site actual material evidence of an 'afterlife' I would love to be proven wrong.
No, you were looking for attention and damn me for giving it to you. You're a sad, pathetic little person who craves attention because mommy and daddy didn't give you any so you come to TH-cam looking for attention. As for "material evidence", there's plenty of anecdotal evidence to go around. Now, since you're the one who so "expertly" said that dying is like simply passing out into unconsciousness, it is your job to disprove the thousands who have had these near death experiences not the other way around.
No, when you die you pop out of your body and look at the corpse for a few minutes. It may be wishful thinking.... Even know that's what happened to This Atheistic guy who's heart stopped. Of course I am not so Atheist after that happened. Just Saying, fainting isn't even close to experiencing death.
@@Rockhound6165 You said it yourself, near death experiences! They didn't really die thus there's a bigger chance the mind played games then that they actually saw afterlife. So, chill.
Was so refreshing seeing Walken play a regular guy in this, his fear at realising what their project can do makes you feel for him as things get out of control.
Great film! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Glad this film was completed - really underrated
Pretty darn good re-construction of these scenes. Lots of great stuff there. Horner's soundtrack works perfectly with the imagery. Inspiring !
Very underrated movie. 👍👍👍👍
Reminds you how they filmed the flashbacks in Robocop
Never forgot the ending scene from my teen days. I wish it were so, for every living thing.
This is an amazing portrayal of the afterlife.......the imagery is stunning......well, we will all find out one day! I loved the part at the end with the angels flying in the presence of God.......
I think you can literally hear God telling him to get out at 4:43
historybuff1964 As someone who does believe in God and afterlife I don’t think this portrayal is good. First of all we have no basis for thinking how it might look/feel except religious texts which usually are written with purpose of describing something metaphysical in relatable terms. In this movie the afterlife is depicted as some sort of ethereal space which is all made of light rays yet there is also a depiction of objects and distance like angels and their movement from one place to another. Instead I think it would contain much more information than any person can sense with all of their senses or think, but whenever there is a light show depiction of afterlife it seems like fewer senses and less information is around you. Imo something like in What Dreams May Come makes sense since it is a more physical world, and more richer senses world. Seems to correspond more to Biblical ideas which is that all humans will be recreated in perfect and immortal bodies that are physical.
3:05 Those images from Hell still scare me years after I first watched this film.
Why was there a memory of hell?
@@MrKzup I don’t think it was hell. I think she passed through purgatory on her way to angels flying towards heaven. Kind of like Dante’s Inferno, it was a journey- ( just my personal perception )
@@christianedwards6048so in that part does Lillian actually pass through hell like is her character shown in that part !
Look into near death expereinces, it might ease your nerves on what "hell" is.
Yes, you're supposed to see hell for a while when you get to heaven
As someone who nearly died (4 times reanimated; in coma four a week between life and death) I can say: yup, that was pretty much my experience. Even the hell part. I thought I would burn for all eternity with this... creatures around me. But then I was flying through an ocean of stars and felt so at peace... But at this moment I felt: If I go deeper, my life will be over. And I did not want that so I fought with all the will I had left... and returned! ^^
Excellent flick! Love Christopher Walken!
So, why was threre a memory/experience of hell there? It has never been clear to me. If it were purgatory, it would make more sense to me.
Christopher walkens greatest role
I remember watching this as a kid, only caring about the ending, not really paying any attention to the rest.
A lot like 2001
awesome!!! wow!!!
I just finished watching Brainstorm for the billionth time and was thinking I wish someone cleverer than I would edit together the death journey. Absolutely riveting scenes. Thank you!!!!
STEVEN SPiELBERG’S DOUG TRUMBULL DOUGLAS TRUMBULL
THis was a heavy flick. I'd like to see a DVD with Trumball doing a narration.
Trumbull more or less wanted to forget he was even involved with it. The entire experience put him off directing a Hollywood film ever again.
Government psychics do this for a living (?)they gave me killer Instinct I lacked
COMPLETED?
Creepy opening
distar and project follow through
This is what ketamine feels like in the right context. Not the visuals but the feeling.
(apart from the hell bit)
BrainStorm, 1984
MONTAGE...
Just think now they are working on this for real scary !
Does anyone know what the part at 3:05 signifies?
I think it's *Purgatory*. Some believe that most will go there before being one with the *creator*.
mmmbad To me its fears of what humans think its like to cross the threshole of existence as a human back into spirituality. Of course Humans forget a lot of this when they are born into this dimension so going back its an awakening of what was. Its too bad the movie had to be pieced together after Natalie's death. This is one of my favorite movies. I think they got the massage across however. I am wondering if they will ever do a remake of this. its due time for it.
Looks like hell.
+mmmbad Looks like a brief glimpse through the gates of hell before going to heaven.
The “bowels” of hell.
The one knock I have on this scene is that Lillian puts on the device to record. All it's set to do is record what is going on in the mind. Since her soul leaves her terrestrial body, how is it able to record?
Artistic license? Who is to say when we have truly left our physical being, when a number of people have claimed to have come back from that far. Apparently.
I was thinking just that last night.
Yeah, I'd say it's "recording" the body's fading bioenergetic signature, like reading the Kirlian field vs. the physical nervous system at that point.
great scenes, but CRAPPY 'fOcUs' !
I have the DVD
Hey folks, this scene, in this movie, is just like any other scene in any other movie about something taking place in someone's mind. It's an artist's conception, and its purpose is to give you an experience. It's as real, or as imaginary, as any other artist's conception of anything. The meaning it has to you is the meaning you give it. It either does, or does not, conform to your personal beliefs. It either will, or it won't, enhance you, transport you, or otherwise provide you with a thought-and-feeling provoking experience of something that almost every human being who has ever lived has wondered about, but about which no human being can ever be a true authority. The fact that one person has one experience after watching it, and another has a different experience, does not mean that one is right and the other is wrong. Watch it, feel it, be moved by it, absorb it, and enmesh it with every other thought and feeling you've ever had about death and the afterlife -- or don't. You will be as right, or as wrong, as everybody else.
The on screen chemestry turned romance that cost Natalie Wood her life.
My work ist my life.
A moje życie to moje lenistwo.
I don't believe there is a Hell, but I understand why they included that part because many people do and they wanted to appeal to the largest audience. Otherwise, EXELLENT depiction I think. The memory bubbles mirror many reports NDE people have of a Life Review. This clip doesn't show it, but there's a segment where you are flying through tapes, equipment and the logo of their research lab. I think that served as symbolism of how much Lillian's heart was devoted to her research, so she would totally see those things as manifestations of that on her way beyond our world. And she was probably thinking about how her very last experiment might give her friends actual data about what comes after life.
Why was there an experience of hell? I always thought it was more of a purgatory
compared to perfect, pain/disease/death/hurt free eternal "heaven" planet earth IS hell, or at least purgatory where every living thing is guaranteed a death, and the vast majority will be under duress, pain, horrible diseases like cancer, heart attacks, horrible accidents etc
When Lazarus was resurrected by Jesus he never mentioned anything about an afterlife. You would think he would or that it would have been recorded, it's how funny how people would push that.
Maybe Lazarus didn’t talk about
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I fainted once, didn't see it coming. One minute I was there and the next I was waking up.
That's what death is like, the rest is wishful thinking.
Craig Sips so you're equating simply losing consciousness to death and the afterlife. And by simply fainting you all of a sudden become the foremost expert on the matter. I guess all of those people who have had near death experiences are all liars. What an egoistical wanker.
Studa Baker Its just an opinion on a TH-cam comments page, no need for hostility. If you want to calm down and site actual material evidence of an 'afterlife' I would love to be proven wrong.
No, you were looking for attention and damn me for giving it to you. You're a sad, pathetic little person who craves attention because mommy and daddy didn't give you any so you come to TH-cam looking for attention. As for "material evidence", there's plenty of anecdotal evidence to go around. Now, since you're the one who so "expertly" said that dying is like simply passing out into unconsciousness, it is your job to disprove the thousands who have had these near death experiences not the other way around.
No, when you die you pop out of your body and look at the corpse for a few minutes. It may be wishful thinking.... Even know that's what happened to This Atheistic guy who's heart stopped. Of course I am not so Atheist after that happened. Just Saying, fainting isn't even close to experiencing death.
@@Rockhound6165 You said it yourself, near death experiences! They didn't really die thus there's a bigger chance the mind played games then that they actually saw afterlife. So, chill.