ABSTRACT
Flatliners is a film about life after death. A band of five young medical students determine to solve the last and final mystery, death. They induce death in one another so that they might undergo Near Death Experiences (NDE) and report back on their systematic experiments to the rest of the world. The NDE was barely known at the time of All That Jazz in 1979. Eleven years later at the time of Flatliners it was common knowledge. The plot is complicated by a love triangle involving the three troubled principals- Nelson, Rachel, and David. The film begins with Loyola University campus looming up as the camera rushes across Lake Michigan. God in Flatliners is light-warm, bright light which appears but rarely. When it appears, however, it wraps its characters in happiness. God’s gift to the five medical students is forgiveness, a forgiveness which transcends death.
