 This is George, I'm George Cason. This is movies you can learn from. And today's show has to do with the movie Hereafter, directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Kennedy Marshall Firm and with Steven Spielberg as an executive producer. And it's a story in three different locations it was filmed, you know? And it's about a factory worker who was a clairvoyant who previously that's how he earned his money, you know? And he decided the emotional strain was too much so he went back to become a Lyft operator, doesn't want to do this anymore. And then they have the next scene which was filmed in Lahaina is this French journalist, TV journalist, very prominent. And she's with her boyfriend in Lahaina, you know, that's where it was filmed supposed to be like Indian Ocean, you know, India but it was filmed in Lahaina, you can see the Lahaina scenes on front street. And there's a tsunami and she gets caught in the tsunami as she's shopping for her boyfriend's children to put little toys and stuff. And she almost, she drowns and she's pretty much dead, you know? Passed on and then some local people save her, you know? And she comes back to life. So in that interim, she's seen the other side, you know? She's seen something she wasn't aware of. So basically as the program continues she decides she wants to write a book about her experience, right? And then you have these two twin boys in London, right? With a mother who's got drug issues, you know? excessive drug issues. So one of the sons goes to get her detox medicine for the mother who's an alcoholic and a drugie. And he get some thugs, you know, start chasing him and he runs in front of a van and he dies. So the little brother of Jason Marcus, he's, you know he's got a twin and he's despondent. So after this incident, the social workers take him away from the mother who's got issues, right? Because the two boys, the twins were protecting her from the social workers because they didn't want to leave their mother. So he's taken away by the social workers and he's given a foster home. But then he steals money from the foster parents so that he can go see a psychic because he learns that you can go to a clairvoyant and link up. But a lot of these clairvoyants are fake, fakers. So lo and behold, he finds this George Lonegan who was now a factory worker. And the factory worker, George, is really good. I mean, he's really a true clairvoyant and he gets the kid in touch with his twin brother. I have a similar experience where my mother died in a hospital, horrible mistakes. And my former wife at 50 died very tragically. So I went and saw Arthur Huckleani Pacheco who's also now passed beyond the next world. And it was phenomenal. I mean, he told me things coming from that side that I only, I mean, he wouldn't know this. It had to be actually that he's good. His name, Arthur Huckleani Pacheco, he's passed on. So I have experience with this. So basically as the story starts, it starts in this film, filming in Lahaina Front Street, which is pretty apropos right now because of the big fire, even though this was showing a tsunami. And she's at her hotel room in Kanapali with her boyfriend, beautiful hotel in Kanapali, Kanapali Coast, you can see that. I mean, I know the sites because I've been there, but I took my nephew to Lahaina and I've been to conferences, work-related conferences in Kanapali. So beautiful hotel. And then she decides, as I was saying, to, she tells us, her boyfriend, did you buy any toys for your kids? And he says, no, no. So she's, so I'm gonna go get some toys and things to take back to Paris. She's from France, right? So she goes and she's on Lahaina Front Street with this shopkeeper, a local woman and a little daughter. And all of a sudden they, nobody knew this tsunami was coming which is unbelievable. I mean, obviously they tell people it's coming, but so does the tsunami comes and all these people at destruction, very apropos. I mean, traumatic for people here in Hawaii and all over what happened with the fires. But it shows this and it's pretty sensitive but we've got to be aware of these things. It's as one of my best professors at UH is a specialist, how Kim in disaster management. So it's a really interesting thing right now because of what we've been dealing with over the last few weeks. So she gets in this and then she's drowning. She drowns. I mean, they show all the destruction, the cars, the tsunami hits and these local guys save her. And then she's still not there. And then all of a sudden she starts spitting up the water and they do the emergency procedures on her to get to work. So here she is and she gets up and she goes back to Paris. And she's sort of not all there. She goes to a board meeting and she's a major, this is a major experience. So her boss tells her, you know, take a few weeks off. I want you to write a book about that Charles de Gaulle, Mitterrand, François Mitterrand, right? So she decides to take a few weeks a month or two off, start writing a book. But she doesn't really want to write a book about François Mitterrand. She wants to write a book about her experience seeing the other side, right? So she hands him a manuscript, a draft, not of the François Mitterrand story, but the story of the hereafter. And they reject it. They said, no, he says, I mean, this is not what the contract said. You're supposed to write a book about François Mitterrand. So she says, you know, she tells him her experience in what was filmed behind it, said to be in the Indian Ocean area. So he finds her another produce, another firm that will produce her book. So she writes this book, this phenomenal book, and then she does these, you know, and it's an English, in the English and American firm offer, but she, what goes with the English firm, I guess it's more convenient, close, you know, in England, it's not that far from France. So then she's on a book tour, you know? She goes and she's speaking at one of these book tours, right? You know, and, you know, at one of these conventions, conventions. And so as she's there, it seems that George Lonergan, that was the clairvoyant, he loses his job as the forklift operator, right? And his brother, who is money-making kind of guy, says, you got to go back and be a clairvoyant again. George says, you know, it was emotionally such, so trying, you know, it's very difficult to be a clairvoyant, it takes a lot out of you, plus you see all these sad people, right? So the brother sets up, he's going to set him up back as a clairvoyant, goes, sets up an office and blah, blah, blah, and the brother's going to have an office next to his as the manager, you know, office manager. So George decides, no way, bro, I'm going to itail out of here. And he gets up and he flies to London because he's very dickens, he's into dickens, you know, Charles Dickens. So he goes to this thing, someone had written a book about Charles Dickens and he's walking around and he sees this thing, this woman speaking hereafter. So he goes and he's going to buy a book and when he's ready to grab the book, he touches her hand and he sees her experience, you know, dying experience, life after death experience. So they become, there's a connection there, right? Meantime, the little kid Marcus was lost with brother Jason, right? His foster parents take him to this book tour, you know, book signing thing. And he's walking, he says, you know, I'm going to walk around on my own. So he goes and he sees this hereafter thing, right? And just as he gets there, he sees George Lonegan, who he had looked up on an internet website. So he knows his face and he says, you're a clairvoyant, you're a clairvoyant. And George doesn't want to do this anymore. He says, no, no, you've got the wrong person. It's not me. And the kid says, yes, it's you, it's yes, it's you. So then the kid follows him to his hotel, to the hotel where he's staying in London. And he sits outside the hotel room and obviously the directors, Clint Eastwood wanted to have it through the hotel room. There's a place right below it, you can sit. And the kid waits for hours for him. So finally the George breaks down and says, okay, I'll do a reading, even though before some African-American woman in San Francisco where George is from wanted to do a reading after, yeah. It seems that his brother set up this guy, Christos, for a reading, a wealthy man, right? And then Christos goes and tells this African-American woman friend that this guy does readings, you know, clairvoyant. So she comes and he says, George says, no, I don't want to do this anymore. But he breaks down for the little kid, right? It's a kid, so, you know, yeah, little kid, little kid. So he breaks down for him, right? And he brings his brother and says, brother says to him, to Marcus, you know, were you in the subway and your hat blew off, right? That was me doing that because five minutes later, there were bombings in London. The train, the subway was gonna get on, exploded. So Marcus would have been gone as well, right? So, and he says to him, I can't, the brother was the stronger one. I'm not gonna be the leader anymore, just like my former wife, identical twin. Her sister was always the leader and she was the follower. I guess that's what happens with identical twins. One takes charge, you know? So he says, I'm not gonna be your leader anymore, Marcus. You've got to stand on your own. So Marcus realized he's got to stand on his own. And he goes back with his foster parents, but he's not really happy about this. And, you know, that's basically where, and then Marie, the TV journalist, right? Sort of back and forth of what's going on with her life. And it seems that there's a connection between George Lonegan and Marie Laverie or whatever, the journalist. So George had asked for her business card. And then he goes and he finds out, somehow she mentioned that she's staying at a certain hotel. So he goes to that hotel and he sends a little letter to her that he wants to meet her and talk with her because he was a clairvoyant, you know? And they've got a connection there, right? And she reads the letter and she smiles, you know? And I guess there's an attraction. There's always got to be some kind of romantic thing in these movies, you know? So there's sort of a physical interaction between these two. So she reads the letter, she likes what he's saying and she meets him for a good lunch, you know, at this fancy restaurant in London, right? And that's sort of how the movie sort of ends. It shows the two of them. And he had a vision kissing her, only a vision, which means that he is anticipating, you know? Even though I guess he's got a psychic ability that something's gonna develop between the two of them. And so getting back to the initial disaster, right? Filled in behind her. Those street scenes on Front Street are really, you know, very emphatic. I mean, you see that the front seat as it was, it was moving in. Clint Eastwood, who lives on, who has a place on Maui was familiar with all these sites, right? So he filled it in behind, right? And then in kind of poly, right? And, you know, I've been to London, Charing Cross. I know that subway station. I've been to Paris, I went to school one summer in Paris and so forth. So I know all the scenes and the restaurants, you know, we've gone, should hold that, right? And then my ex, we went to visit her identical twin sister in San Francisco, where she lived on Twin Peaks. Remember that show Twin Peaks? Her sister lived on this apartment on a pinnacle. There was a kind of places in San Francisco if you see San Francisco. So these are the sites that I was already familiar with. It sort of made this movie more interesting to me as well, right? And so it's filled in all these different, in London, Paris, San Francisco and Lahaina kind of poly on Maui. These are the sites there. Now, it seems that Steven Spielberg, who was the deputy producer, he has some issues with how the ending, he wanted the ending to be more emphatic. But the ending sort of just leaves you, you know, it shows these two that are gonna be falling in love, right? And that's sort of how Spielberg felt it was, it wasn't packed enough of a wallop. So, you know, disaster management right now is critical to your life. And I was mentioning my good professor, Carl Kim, who does disaster management. You know, sort of the situation in Maui behooves us to, you know, the powers that be, to sort of ramp up on this disaster management as you never know, because the people in Lahaina, they thought that this might be a tsunami, so they were running to up country. When it was a fire that was raging, so they literally ran into the fire, as opposed to, you know, as opposed to, you know, running to the ocean, right? Because they didn't want to run to the ocean because when you have a tsunami, the tsunami is coming from that direction. So, and then the lack of, there was lack of communication because the cell phones went down, the electricity went down. So there was no way to communicate with them, right? And unfortunately a lot of people died and the authorities are still trying to figure it out and take it from there. So I'm going to give this movie a 10, basically because the acting is good, the scenery is good, the action scenes are phenomenally done, right? Even though some of the reviewers had said that the ending is sort of like soft, you know? But Ebert, you know, Roger Ebert had given it a four out of four. So he thought it was really good. So I'm going to give this a 10, despite some soft ending. And I really liked this movie, as I said, you know, familiar with the sites, familiar with the theme, the plot and familiar with the different players, you know, in some way. So give it a 10. Mahalo, see you in two weeks when I'm going to be doing the show by myself for the time being, Jay is involved with other important things right now. And two weeks from now, on Thursdays, 5 p.m., there'll be another new movie with you. Mahalo and Aloha.