Warning: This article contains spoilers for the movie Between Life and Death.
Between life and death recently landed in our homes through the streaming giant Netflix to show us that love never dies, even when it must go beyond the limits of life itself to endure. Tessa (Joey King) y Skylar (Kyle Allen) plunge us into a love story atypical, supernatural, in which a teenager will feel the need to pay attention to the signals that the love of her life sends her when he dies after a tragic accident.
Through the protagonist’s camera, the viewer will travel between the two worlds, to a space where souls remain for some time to settle pending accounts. A film that finds the right formula to tell us about ghosts, although not just any ghosts, but those that are inside us.
as it says Tessa In the last sequences of Between life and death: ‘Each and every one of us is haunted by ghosts. The ghosts of childhood traumas, the ghosts of unfulfilled dreams, the ghosts of lost love. Like our worst fears, these invisible spirits gain strength in the dark. We must attend to our ghosts. They are part of us. Only when we accept their presence will they give way to new possibilities’.
The 10 most melancholic moments of Between life and death
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Joey King is Tessa and Kyle Allen is Skylar in the new teen drama Between Life and Death.
1. Tessa and Skylar meet
In the start of Between life and deathone of the best streaming premieresis observed at Tessa waking up in hospital bed after having suffered a serious accident that has left his heart damaged. Then, we travel to the past, specifically, 182 days before the tragedy. Then, we will see how the protagonist, after taking some photographs, will go to a small usual cinema. In this place, both characters will meet. The film will be in French and Skylar will translate the entire film to Tessa. When the projection ends, both will realize that a connection that is difficult to forget has been born between them.
2. Visit from beyond
After suddenly losing her partner, Tessa start looking for answers to what happened. In this process of acceptance, the adolescent –and us with her– will be led along a path full of signs that will come from beyond. Skylar will visit Tessa in the hospital while she is still recovering from the collision. It will be, then, when we witness the young woman’s first contact with the space between the two worlds.
3. Songs with stories
One of the most romantic and melancholic episodes of Between life and death happens after Tessa go cheer on Skylar in a rowing competition. When it ends, they both get into the car and together they listen to the cassette that the young man’s father recorded for his mother in the 1980s.
4. The voices of the ghosts
Tessa will show to Skylar the Empyrean, a resort for newlyweds in the 60’s. Both will enter again that place known as ‘the metaphor of love’. When the two protagonists talk around what the voices of the ghosts that still remain in that space whisper, they will experience their first approach.
5. Developed photographs
Skylar will manage to shrink the hearts of all the spectators when, suddenly, it will be manifested through the photographs of Tessa. Although we will observe how the teenager is not accompanied at any time, the revealed images will say the opposite. Although romantic content is not explicitly developed in these scenes, they will manage to make lovers of emotional films feel that true love is capable of crossing all kinds of borders, even physical ones.
6. Intimacy in the woods
will be when Tessa Y Skylar are together in a rowboat when the young man will say, for the first time, what he really feels for the photographer. However, she is she will not respond in the same way. Unable to verbalize that the exact same thing is happening to him, Tessa will kiss without saying a word Skylarleading them to have their first intimate encounter.
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Between life and death arrives at the platform in April.
7. Time is running out
Skylar will get to Tessa a map that will lead you to Doris, the lady that the young woman will meet in the hospital and who will tell her about the existence of a place known as ‘the waiting room of souls’, located at an intermediate point between life and death. She will also assure you that Sky He has not left yet, although he knows that the end is near. The young man will ask Doris that one to Tessa with him before it’s too late. The souls of the deceased, according to ancient folklore, return to the places where they lived their greatest moments of love, so the young woman must go through all those points, since they are the only spaces where borders can be crossed. between life and death.
8. Tessa and Skylar meet again
When Tessa head to the Empyrean, following the advice of Dorisyou will be able to meet Skylar. Without being able to touch each other and remaining separated by a glass, both will be able to feel again.
9. ‘I love you’
in the end of Between life and death we will understand why Tessa He doesn’t stop chasing the signs that appear to him throughout the film. The protagonist believes that she never managed to utter an ‘I love you’ to Skylar. However, he will do everything possible so that she can cure her regret. Skylar Will lead to Tessathen, to the place of the accident, which was –precisely– where he verbalized those words.
10. The happy ending
Tessa He will go to the scene of the accident, but he will faint when he gets out of the car, because the wounds from the day of the tragedy will not have healed. While she is between life and death, the photography lover will meet again with Skylar to settle your pending accounts. Both will travel and swear eternal love, something that Sky will ask as I wish Tessa for both.