Hell is an idea that many find unpleasant and is more unpopular than ever, even in Christian circles. There have been more than a few films in cinema that address this topic but they all have the same flaws; they don't persuade a skeptical person that such a place exists.
As other reviewers have mentioned, if you've seen the movie Flatliners you probably know how the plot of this movie goes. A doctor, dealing with depression and guilt over his broken relationship with his father, increasingly obsesses over the idea of NDEs. He reaches the point of wanting to pierce the veil and experience it for himself. Predictably, he finds life after death to be dramatically different than he expected.
As with the other films of this genre, Hell is simply assumed to exist. There's no explanation offered as to why it does, what its purpose is or why a seemingly moral person would end up there. God and Jesus, central to the Christian faith, are absent in this movie.
I know you can only go so deep into theology when making a movie, without turning it into a sermon that people will tune out anyway. I still believe it's possible to give exposition or discussion around the idea of Hell in a movie that will at least interest others. Surely the Bible is sufficient source material.
Bottom line is that many have legitimate questions about Hell, notably about the justice of such a place. If Christian filmmakers set out to make a movie about it, they should at least try to address some of these issues.
As other reviewers have mentioned, if you've seen the movie Flatliners you probably know how the plot of this movie goes. A doctor, dealing with depression and guilt over his broken relationship with his father, increasingly obsesses over the idea of NDEs. He reaches the point of wanting to pierce the veil and experience it for himself. Predictably, he finds life after death to be dramatically different than he expected.
As with the other films of this genre, Hell is simply assumed to exist. There's no explanation offered as to why it does, what its purpose is or why a seemingly moral person would end up there. God and Jesus, central to the Christian faith, are absent in this movie.
I know you can only go so deep into theology when making a movie, without turning it into a sermon that people will tune out anyway. I still believe it's possible to give exposition or discussion around the idea of Hell in a movie that will at least interest others. Surely the Bible is sufficient source material.
Bottom line is that many have legitimate questions about Hell, notably about the justice of such a place. If Christian filmmakers set out to make a movie about it, they should at least try to address some of these issues.