 Reincarnation Movies: An Overview
What is common in mystic movies like ‘Dracula’, ‘Dead Again’, ‘What Dreams May Come’, ‘Birth, Down to Earth’, or ‘Mannequin’? All portray the same belief that souls live forever, beyond bodily limitations and strive for perfection again and again through rebirth or reincarnation. Neither the soul nor the mystic movies stop their reincarnations and time to time we watch intricate Hebrew, Biblical, Jain, Hindu or American religious texts on Mystic reincarnation visualized in movies, simplified enough to cater to the common man’s interest. Before we start referring to the category of reincarnation movie.
Every religion endeavors to reach the roots of human equilibrium between life and death through reincarnation. One of the greatest pillars of Greek Philosophy Pythagoras always recollected his past lives, and Plato explained his life’s consequences founded upon reincarnation theories. On the contrary Jewish mystics explain how reincarnation generates reconciliation of evil in benevolence of Almighty and Agnostics boost this concept further as they believe reincarnation to be an evil alteration of purity and serenity. Perhaps the most ancient and deeply rooted conception found in Egypt where the dead were mummified with the hope of retrieval of human spirit and as the soul’s utmost confidante in the new venture of the dead world. Similarly in Jainism Devas (God ) can rejuvenate, based on their Karma, Norse mythology evidenced Helgi and Sigrun’s love saga which is based on reincarnation again. In Hinduism, reincarnation leads to liberation or rejuvenations after the hard hitting trials of birth episodes as humans or animals or inanimate objects. Even the Native Americans, despite being sandwiched between native Red Indians and European traditions, keep faith in the values of reincarnation.
Reincarnation movies like ‘Little Buddha’, the reincarnation of Tibetian prophet or ‘The singing forest’, love story, involves characters from different births. Ema Thompson in ‘Dead Again’ who played the role of an amnesia patient falling prey to a forty years old murder case, set the typical trend of reincarnation movies. The realm of love reincarnated, gets a breath of fresh air with Asian reincarnation movies like ‘Reincarnation’ (Japanese) or ‘Karz’ (Indian) in recent days. Innumerable names of mystic movies can be recollected revolving around this theme of rebirth like ‘Moonchild’ (1986) ‘What Dreams May Come’ (1998), ‘Made In Heaven’ (1987), ‘Noel’ (2004), ‘P.S’. (2004).
Whether we believe in reincarnations or not, it keeps on baffling us in mythology and entertaining us in life after death movie, categorized as reincarnation movies, drawing a subtle line between our conscious and subconscious minds.
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