when the heroic deeds from her life were shown on the screen. The judges kept looking at her during it, evidently pleased with the good things she's done. A far cry from the court of Daniel Miller. He did terribly.
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@Camelot_2000 I laughed as soon as I saw the way she was sitting on the chair in court:
http://i.imgur.com/P3OtRhc.jpg Curled up like she was watching a romcom, the opposite of Daniel's stiff posture when he was sitting in his chair.
And even the prosecutor was complimenting Julia's video, lol.
I suppose 'fear' is considered a crime in the Afterlife but 'smugness', 'vanity' and 'narcissism' are big-pluses. I can imagine the real Meryl Streep admiringly watching her wretched performance as 'Margaret Thatcher' in that terrible 'Iron Lady' film instead of being more honestly critical about her failures.
I'd probably cringe at my own life in the same scenario because I acknowledge my mistakes and am not complacent about myself but believe in improving myself and being a better person. I guess that degree of self-criticism would earn me a ticket back to Earth in Albert Brooks' concept of the Afterlife. What a crock...
The thing I never understood is why Julia needed so many trips back to Earth to get the thumbs up from the Heavenly Court! In the Past Lives Pavilion we're shown many of her previous lives; heroic and full of goodness, valor and honor. From what we've seen, she should have "moved on" hundreds of years/dozens of lives earlier!(?)
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