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Nobody knows what happens after death; nobody nose what happens after death. I didn't want to avoid the concept of death, since this film features death a lot. Not any personifications of Death itself, like the DIscworld, but ghosts and stuff; BEING dead I should say. But in a way, I'd say death and the state of being dead in Beetlejuice is more of a punchline than anything serious; kinda like my nobody nose joke. I think I mementoed my mori enough. I felt the world/lore of Beetlejuice could've been developed more; the time dilation for the dead was something I felt should've been explored more, 'cause in the film it's explained that, when you're dead, time can vary depending on where you are. For all intents and purposes, we're just casually told that time passed differently. In other words, the story doesn't do enough for me to properly convince me that time is passing like it says it is. On a different matter, the film states that when you die you get a body - or possibly the right word would be "form" - that represents how you died, for instance, if you died smoking or possibly in a house fire you'd be appear in the afterlife as a weird, burnt guy and if you died in a road accident, you'd appear as flat as a pancake. I did pull both of those from the film, and when we meet the road accident man they make a joke out of it which I felt fell a bit FLAT! You know, I got to make myself laugh while writing these reviews. As I was saying, when the main characters die - by drowning - they remain, well, people, it's never really explained why they look so human while every other dead person usually has some sort of fancy make up. Do the other characters see them like some fish people and CHOOSE not to acknowledge it? Was it a creative choice by Tim Burton? Am I forgetting something or just don't know something? I liked the score of the film, the main theme conveys a vague grimness with a certain level of cartoonishness. I feel that would be a good word to describe some of it. At the climax especially it felt like a live action cartoon or a LSD trip. It was a good decision on the writers to save us actually meeting The Ghost with the Most (Beetlejuice) to about the middle-ish allowing us as the audience to be engaged with the rest of the cast. I'll regret if I didn't mention the sequel, all I can for now is I hope it's a trilogy.