Heaven Is for Real Movie Download

8 / 10

lovely film about a controversial subject
“Heaven is for Real” is based on the book of the same name. I’ll admit up front, I didn’t read it.

The son of a preacher, Todd Burpo (Greg Kinnear) becomes critically ill and when he gets well, he tells his parents that he went to heaven, met the big cheese (I guess it was Jesus), met his grandfather and met his sister, whom his mother (Kelly Reilly) miscarried and he never knew about.

The interesting thing here is that his father and many others in the parish don’t know what to make of it. They find it disturbing and his father questions his own belief in things he’s been telling his parishoners for years. It gets to the point in the parish where there is talk of replacing Burpo.

I thought this was a good movie, which didn’t hit everyone on the head with Christianity and stayed away from sentimentality.

I find the whole subject of life after death and near-death experience a fascinating topic, all the more fascinating because science’s attempt to explain it has failed. We’ve heard about the euphoric state that causes the wonderful feeling of peace, we’ve heard what causes hallucinations yada yada yada but no one has been able to explain why, while all these brain functions are apparently going on, the patients have flatlined and there is no brain activity.

I used to watch a show on, I believe, A&E called Life After Life where real people recounted their experience. These weren’t near-death experiences. They were DEATH experiences. All of these people had been pronounced dead, and they came back by some miracle – none of them were expected to live. These stories were similar but different.

What impressed me about those stories and the little boy’s story is that each person had an experience that he or she could understand, so they weren’t all the same. I understand at the end of the book, the boy describes some sort of battle that seemed to some reviewers like a video game description. That fits in with what the Life After Life people said, because a child would be able to relate to that.

This is a controversial subject, and any time there is a film that describes life after death, positive thinking, the law of attraction, etc., it is bludgeoned by IMDb. That’s fine. I believe the spirit continues, and I found this a nice movie.Read More