Rating of
3/4
When Death Can't Save You
Chris Kavan - wrote on 04/23/09
One doesn't approach a film, even a short like this, lightly. Just knowing of the subject matter before hand is probably enough to turn most people away. Death is already a touchy subject with many - and this film will change the way you view the aftermath of death.
Many of us are concerned with what happens after we die. However, this usually focuses on what will happen to our souls as opposed to what will happen to our actual body. Aftermath isn't concerned about our spirits. Instead we see (in graphic detail) what happens in the morgue. Autopsy is too nice of word - with cracking bones, and entrails strewn about - this is not so much a medical procedure but a morbid undertaking.
Then it's delves even deeper into a very dark place. With pretty much only his eyes to show emotion (as not one word is spoken throughout), Pep Tosar oozes unspeakable evil. Just when you think he can't get any worse, he does the unimaginable and you realize that there is always something worse just around the corner. With knife, with camera, with body - one man manages to take all that is sacred in death and turn it into something most vile.
Shocked, stunned, revolted even sickened - but it will make you realize that our souls are not the only thing we have to worry about after we die. I wouldn't have said so before, but maybe cremation is the best way to go.
