Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality: Flight from Death is the first film to investigate the psychological The effects of death anxiety are embedded within everything we do across Flight from Death is the culmination of many years of research. (7.4)
Director: Patrick Shen
Writers: Greg Bennick, Patrick Shen
Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Sam Keen and Ron Leifer
From the second part of the title of this Documentary movie, I thought that this is going to be a look at the medical and scientific effort of people trying to achieve immortality. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is actually a look at the cultural aspects of (im)mortality and dying. The documentary is loosely based on the ideas of Ernest Becker and his book The Denial of Death. The gist of it is that when we are reminded of death, we try to extend ourselves, or be immortal, through what it familiar to us; that is to live an extension of ourselves through the culture that we belong to and our believe/faith system(s). We try to do this by denying those that are different to our own belief systems. So, yeah, this is a very interesting and fascinating look at death, how we deal with it culturally, and religiously. We are the only animals who can contemplate our own mortality and think about what to leave behind; yet, we are not all that civilized when it comes to dealing with this idea of dying. I think about death on a daily basis. I don't know why people think it is scary. But, apparently, because the death frighten us, we do all kinds of stupid things. This documentary is a must see for anyone who is going to die. My Rating: 7.5
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