The reason films were made

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2000)

Meet Joe Black is everything that films are about. Because it it is a message, a story and an experience that leaves you with ideas, hopes and dreams. You could call it a love story, but the film has so many truths and encounters that count for so much in life that I would call it an experience. The setting of the rich lifestyle gives an arena where money & material things are not an issue, but the fact Hopkins' character has to lose his life's work shows that no matter how material people are, we should respect others lives and what they are worth. The fact that Hopkins' will soon be dead put an immediacy on things and then we have to see a character who is bright and intelligent think about the things that are most important to him. This film handles everything so beautifully, the way the characters are also well placed but are then put with the rogue factor of Joe Black, I wasn't sure who was to be more unwelcome in their environment, death or the people that came into contact with him. For someone like myself who hopes to make their own films in the future, I wish I could make something as clever, thoughtful but above all, emotional as this. The score is fantastic as I'm sure everyone else will tell you. I love punk rock and soul music but the classical pieces in this film were nothing short of exceptional. As for Brad Pitt's performance and the way in which Death is portrayed, Death would really be that mellow and calm, cause I mean you have to live with being the bearer of the worst news possible for everyone who ever existed, you gonna be mellow ok?! I will live my life by this film, and those who discard it should take a look at what they want in life and watch this film again and again and again