What Dreams May Come [Blu-ray]

The message and passion in this movie are beautifully portrayed. It captures a wide range of emotions—love, fear, sadness, and passion—all woven together with deep, thought-provoking philosophy. The storytelling is rich and engaging, making it a truly intriguing and memorable film. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys emotionally layered movies with meaning.

I love love love this movie. It’s beautifully heartbreaking, even more so since Robin Williams is no longer with us. I can’t count the number of times I’ve cried while rewatching.While the book is much more in depth as far as what the character experiences after death, the movie interprets the story with more soul. Absolutely brilliant.

Great movie!

One of my favorite Robbin Willam movie

This movie is visually gorgeous, the story is great, the acting was so good. Honestly, one of my favorite movies. I have to bring tissues when I watch it. Worth the time.

First and foremost, if you are interested in Samkhya Philosophy / Yogic self-cultivation and death and dying, this film was pretty much made for you. If not, you may be disappointed. Please do a modicum of research on this topic before watching as it will make the entire premise of the film more understandable. For example, you'll notice that no one knows who or what God is at this stage, which just follows suit with the philosophy. Divine interaction in the afterlife occurs more intimately at the karana and parusha realms. I my opinion, this film follows the philosophy to a T, so in this sense I think the movie is spot on. I get the feeling that many reviewed this move projecting values upon it that were never there in the first place.My biggest concern with this movie is that the casting is absolutely horrible. I mean just awful! To boot, the writing seemed just sorta tossed together. It's as if they had this great idea and nifty special effects, but then just figured that if they got a big name star, the rest would just take care of itself. Well, it didn't.Robin Williams plays a static, overly impulsive and stubborn man who seems to spout useless clichés whenever given the chance. His daughter is pretty much stoic and his son seems a bit out of his league. The only believable character is his wife. As I'm not a big fan of Cuba Gooding jr. I don't feel my commentary on his lack-luster and spastic performance is very meaningful.Without getting too much into the plot, how the after life functions seems right on. In the film, Williams is met by a spirit guide, allowed to make his peace with this life and then move on to the astral dimension where imagination and creativity reign. As we find out, he's not very good at it at first. Also, the view on personal hell is spot on in my book too. Some of the more broad metaphysical assumption seem a little contrived, like the whole needing a guide to find someone, seemed a little forced, but it added to the plot a bit.I'll give this film a four stars as I feel that it followed its own philosophy quite well and because I feel it to be good when alternative (pronounced, "non-Christian") views of the afterlife are made accessible to the public. I'm still on the fence about giving it three due to the terrible acting and script, but the visual beauty of some scenes seals the deal at four.

There's an author by the name of Richard Matheson, who's better known for his horror fiction (I Am Legend and Hell House) and the teleplays that he wrote for the original Twilight Zone series in the sixties (the most famous being Nightmare at 30,000 Feet). This is the man who had the greatest influence on Stephen King when he was a teenager and an aspiring writer. What many people don't know is that Richard Matheson also wrote two very powerful novels about undying love and soul mates, both of which were turned into successful movies--Somewhere In Time in 1980 and What Dreams May Come in 1998. This posting is about What Dreams May Come.What Dreams May Come was written by Richard Matheson as a way of saying a big "thank you" to his wonderful wife. He wanted to write a book that would show his love for her in a very special way. When the novel was originally published, one of the producers of Somewhere In Time read it and decided that he would eventually turn the book into a movie. This finally came about in 1998. The movie, What Dreams May Come, starred Robin Williams as Chris Nielsen and Annabella Sciorra as his wife, Annie. The story is a sad one; yet, it does have a positive ending. More importantly, it has a strong message about life after death and how we choose to come into this life to be with the people we love and need to learn from. In a sense, this is the unique power of love. When you truly love someone, the energy of that emotion never goes away, no matter how many years or centuries may pass. Love is eternal.The story of What Dreams May Come (there are plot spoilers here, so beware) deals with a middle-aged couple that has lost their two children due to a traffic accident. They have struggled to rebuild their lives and to carry on their journey together. But, another traffic accident takes Chris's life, and Annie is left alone to deal with her guilt and heartache and emptiness. As Chris's spirit gradually accepts his death, he moves into the after life, or to a very special place that's built on happy memories from his previous life. You could say that it's the place where dreams are born. He meets the man who helped trained him to be a doctor and is guided by him in an effort to readjust to this new state of being. Eventually Chris will encounter his two children, whose memories have never left his heart. In time, however, he finds out that Annie has committed suicide. She found herself unable to go on without him. Because of her belief system and because her death is a suicide, Annie's spirit ends up in what might be referred to as hell. Chris refuses to accept that he may never see Annie again and decides to go after her. Though no spirit has ever done this before, Chris is determined to make the journey to hell and to bring his wife back. This is the strength of his love for her. If he can't bring Annie back, then he'll stay in hell with her for the rest of his existence.Needless to say, you need a big box of Kleenexes when you watch What Dreams May Come. This movie has a number of poignant moments about true love and death and the people who are interconnected to us. The photography and special effects are awesome. The movie makes you believe in life after death, and that it can be the most beautiful place that one's mind can imagine. I think this is one of the reasons the film had such a powerful affect upon me. When I saw it at the movie theater in 1998, I continued to sit there for at least ten minutes after the end credits had rolled. I wasn't the only one, either. That night, I went to see it again with some friends, and we all seemed to experience the same kind of sensation when the movie ended. It touched something deep within us that was desperately needed. I think that as human beings, we need these very special experiences every so often in order to keep us moving through the ups and downs of life. Without these moments in time that touch our hearts and souls, we would simply be moving forward as if on autopilot. There's about twenty-five minutes of extras on this DVD that deal with the making of the movie. Highly recommended!

Best feel good movie.