“Immediately, I fell through the earth as if the earth were no longer solid and I were sky diving or something… I literally fell through the soil, rocks, minerals, water, etc. However, he remembers what happened after he actually died very well. Back then, he suffered a drug overdose, during which he passed out for 30 minutes and suffered clinical death. Van’s face-off with death happened many years ago, but has only now decided to talk about it. However, the experience shook him so much that he then proceeded to completely change his life. According to Van, this is not at all what he expected to see in the afterlife. However, not all NDEs are the same some of them are frightening and mesmerizing.įor instance, the British tabloid Expresspublished the story of a man named Van who went through a painful near-death experience, during which he saw hell. Most of these experiences are accompanied by a sense of all-consuming love, unity with the Universe, calmness, and lack of fear. Originally published: March 3, 2002.During a near-death experience, people often see similar visions – light, flight, their own unconscious bodies, God, angels, as well as loved ones or animals that they lost during their lifetime. The disc is rounded out with trailers for unrelated Fox movies: The Deep End, Don't Say A Word, Kiss of the Dragon, and Sexy Beast.
Technically speaking, both audio and visual presentations are above reproach. The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is largely underutilized, considering the film is short on action and long on exposition, though the explosions do rumble nicely. Contrast is spot on, shadow detail is lovely, colour is lively, and black levels are appropriately black. Whatever the case, as a shorthand analysis, A Glimpse of Hell serves an adequate springboard for a more in-depth examination of prejudice and incompetence amongst our warrior leaders.įox DVD's 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer of A Glimpse of Hell is sharp and satisfying. The real question of currency is whether a film so openly critical of our military can be made in our current wartime environment of flag-waving and chest-pounding and, more to the point, whether the timing of this film's release suggests the belief that A Glimpse of Hell can now be taken as a patriotic film rather than a paranoid one.
Yet the film does what it appears to have set out to accomplish (that is, vilify the faceless leadership while championing the common sailor). The characterizations are broad, the archetypes are all in place it's as if, at a brisk 87 minutes, there wasn't much time for complexity. I'm not certain if the families of the fallen would be interested to see how A Glimpse of Hell portrays their boys in various states of bloody dismemberment, nor am I sure how accurate such a scene can be as it appears as though the Naval cover-up began instantly.Ī Glimpse of Hell isn't a bad movie, all things considered. As it is based on a true story, however, a few ethical questions might be raised to the explicitness of the carnage shown post-explosion. Thompson II) drawn from a true story goes only so far towards ameliorating some difficulties with the staging. That the film is ostensibly based upon a book (by Charles C.
Most distracting are repeated scenes in which Meyer retreats to his father's home, sometimes inexplicably, to hammer out his thoughts on first his responsibility to report the Iowa's condition and then his growing astonishment at the Navy's dedication to scapegoating an innocent man. Despite a relatively snappy script that largely avoids jingoism and flat dialogue, A Glimpse of Hell suffers from plot devices that are too clearly such. The Navy, in order to hide the disrepair of their fleet, conspires to blame a homosexual lover's pique for the mishap.Ī Glimpse of Hell's saving grace may be Leonard's earnestness, which, taken with Caan's trademark slow-witted burn, produces a fitfully intriguing dynamic at the centre of the story. Meyer drafts memos and worries his lower lip but is unable to prevent tragedy from striking. Shocked at the apparent decrepitude of the ship's armaments (a soda can is used as a stop-gap for a poorly fitted gun), Lt.
Lieutenant (j.g.) Dan Meyer (Robert Sean Leonard) is eager to serve aboard the "sword's point"-a battleship, the legendary Iowa, that is run with a kind of imperious Queeg-ness by Capt.
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