Celebrating the production kick off of the new-gen 2 Series Coupe at the San Luis Potosi plant in Mexico at the beginning of the month, BMW has presented an art car, based on the 2022 M240i.
You know the saying “everything old is new again?” Well, it’s very much true when it comes to Mexican beverages.
Case in point: some classic yet under-the-r.
Afterlife fantasies have always been a unique way to look at society. Since death is a fairly impenetrable wall, it gives us an opportunity to imagine all kinds of stuff on the other side. Visions of heavens and hells can be used as carrots and sticks to critique people while they’re still alive, hence Dante’s
Divine Comedy, Faust’s terrifying trapdoor, and Jacob Marley’s chains.
When I watched Pixar’s
Soul, I was reminded of a couple of afterlife fantasies most immediately,
Defending Your Life and
A Matter of Life and Death. This got me thinking: is there a tradition to afterlife fantasies? Are there recurring themes or imagery? (tl;dr: YES, YES, and YES. That third “YES” is the surprising one, as I’ll discuss.) Wouldn’t it be fun to rewatch all these movies, and write about them? (tl;dr: SOMETIMES. I hope it’s fun to read?) And thus this miniseries was born, as I went back about a century and worked my way up through twelve (12) movies and one (1) music