ABSTRACT

This chapter demonstrates that while for many philosophers and theologians the continuity of personal identity from this life to what comes next after death is problematic, for most of our films it is not so. The person-who-is in that post-death life is the same as that in their previous life. As for time and space, particularly for the former, there is, however, a recognition in most of the films that these are somehow different from one space to the next. There appears a recognition, as was recognised by Augustine and others, that time (and space) is itself a created entity and will therefore be proper, specific and appropriate to a particular space. Time (and space) in the other world will not operate by the same rules as in this one, given that it is shaped by the requirements of each differently.