My Impressions + Thoughts SPOILERS

I recently watched this film on Netflix and was really intrigued by what I was watching, it a great film and the actors really helped to make you feel invested in their emotions, at first I was a bit confused but after a little while I realized what was gong on with going back and forth between Diana as a child(played great by Rachel Evan Wood) & as an adult(played by Uma Thurman). After finishing up the movie, I had stopped everything and sat back and just thought about what just happened and came up with two scenarios to make sense of it.

ONE:
We all have heard the saying "My life flashed before my eyes" well considering that's partially what the film is called, that's how I see the whole film being, this is her life, if she had lived, Emma represents the daughter she never had, her guilt of having her friend die instead of her, each time we are shown the beginning scene again as a way to remind the audience we are still at that moment. When the moment of her flashing goes by this is when she makes the choice to sacrifice herself(the long pause after Maureen suggest her being killed is when I think she is having that moment of having her life flash before her eyes)so she doesn't have that guilt over letting her best friend die.

TWO:
The whole film is basically the victims version of heaven, for each victim(or at least Diana)we see them "living" the life they were meant to live if it hadn't been for the shooter. At the end when the woman ask her if she is a survivor and she says no, is because perhaps when a survivors does eventually die, whether its old age or suicide they go back to this time of their live as their heaven, but her saying no she is revealing that she has been within that world since than and has finally decided to accept what has happened. It could also be that the moment she dies in reality is the moment she says "No"(if you remember she is seen lying there a few minutes before dying)

This was a terrific story and while I know many may feel with all the recent school shootings this may be too soon or just a film that shouldn't be made, I still feel this is good story telling, its a harsh world out there, but this could help heal those who have been affected by suggesting there is another world for those we lose. It could also help to stop another shooting. Either way I enjoyed it and thought the acting given to our main three leads was exceptionally well done(although, Rachel Wood looks NOTHING like Uma and vice versa, but I'll overlook that)
4 out of 5 stars