Review of Realive

Realive (2016)
6/10
Major spoilers. Don't peek.
24 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The movie is about a person who commits suicide by cryo-sleep (he says toward the end he had expected to never be reanimated but pretending that's what he was doing gave him a firm end date to his life and that made his little remaining live more fun and his death easier).

Then in the future after a fortune in both money and precious human resources (including both the talent and the sacrifice by those preceding him) is spent reanimating him, he commits suicide again, and this time it's a murder-suicide where he murders the person he claims to love (yes, it's clearly morally murder, since proof of principle of reanimating the cryo-sleepers has been achieved; the others are just waiting their turn for reanimation).

In other words, the spoiled fool lead character is a clueless, utterly despicable murderer. Yet the movie portrays him sympathetically.

So why did I give it a 6/10 anyway? I loved that last twist at the very end. Welcome to Hell, murderer. They won't let him die, and if things work out well for him, it will become apparent to even that fool that he kept the wondrous future (including constantly improving medical technology) from the woman he loved by murdering her.
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