The Discovery (2017)

Summary
"The Discovery", a 2017 British-American romantic science fiction film directed by Charlie McDowell and composed by McDowell and Justin Lader, grapples with concepts of death, the afterlife, and individual consciousness. The film stars Robert Redford, Jason Segel, Rooney Mara, Jesse Plemons, and Riley Keough.

Plot Setting
Set 2 years after scientist Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford) scientifically proves the existence of an afterlife, the movie explores the social effects of the discovery. The world is plagued by a suicide epidemic, with more than 4 million deaths as people end their lives to "arrive", believing that afterlife uses a better reality.

Storyline
The story follows the journey of Will (Jason Segel), Thomas Harbor's child, who is doubtful of his dad's discovery. En route to his daddy's removed, island mansion, Will saves Isla (Rooney Mara), a distressed female who will devote suicide. Isla ends up being a transient at Harbor's substance occupied by people affected by the public's reaction to his discovery.

Thomas has been progressively advancing his research, seeking to define what the afterlife actually is. His newest experimentation involves taping visual symptoms of patients' near-death experiences and analyzing these visions utilizing a neural imaging machine.

Underlying Conflict
Will starts an intimate relationship with Isla while disagreeing with his father's experiments, considering them harmful pseudoscience. Contemporary conflicts ensue, focusing on the morality of motivating suicide belief, the nature of the afterlife, and the duty tied to such a substantial discovery. Will wants to discredit his daddy's claim to stop more people from killing themselves to reach the afterlife.

Climax & Resolution
During the course of the film, Will discovers that the afterlife images taped by his father are not of the afterlife however of the person's guilt-ridden, alternative life course in their minds. His dad's discovery, they discover, does not really reveal an afterlife however creates a continuous loop of life and death, a purgatorial presence caught in one's own regrets. His dad's "afterlife" is a cyclical reoccurrence of life, trapped in repeat till a person corrects their life's regret.

After a sequence where Will himself passes away and restores, he manages to interact with Isla in her own afterlife-loop. He helps her modify her guilt, enabling them to break free from the cycle. They return to their consciousness in the existing world, together, alive, and exceptionally impacted.

The film concludes with an idea that the characters are continuing to relive their lives from the point where they made crucial errors, hinting that Thomas's discovery, the afterlife, is not an afterlife however an opportunity for redemption and self-improvement.

Conclusion
"The Discovery", with its sci-fi property, takes a hard, reflective look at human nature, regret, remorse, and the greatly convoluted concept of afterlife. It uses a cinematic meditation on existential approaches, probing the audience to reflect upon their lives, mistakes, and the worry and reputation of death.

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