After life - Usa - 2009

I just saw it on tv, and a very strange movie it was... It has Christina Ricci (Anna Taylor) and Liam Neeson (Eliot Deacon) in it, which is a good thing, but the story is very strange. Anna is a complicated girl. One night she has a big fight with her boyfriend: well, if "fight" is the right word, because she does it all. With no reason. She says he's going to break up with her and things like that and runs away, but he really had an engagement ring with him... anyway, she drives away, and she's crying, and there's heavy rain... she "wakes up" elsewhere, and meets funeral director Eliot that tells her she's dead and he has to prepare her body for the funeral that'll happen in three days! Of course she doesn't believe it, but he tells her he has the gift, he can talk to the dead to help the pass on to the afterlife. Her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) can't accept it , thinking it's all his fault, but Deacon won't let him see the body because he's not family. Paul thinks she's not dead, but can do nothing about it. He will see her only at the funeral, but still not convinced she's dead even after she's been buried, he drives to the cemetery after many many drinks, and the movie ends with him on Deacon's table, dead after a car accident, just like her.
I've read about this movie on the internet, and it said that it's not clear if it is all true or if she's really alive. Well, it shows many ambiguous things, like the fact that she seemed to still have breath, that Deacon injects her with a mysterious drug that he says it's to avoid rigor mortis... all of this is to confuse us, to make us think that maybe she's alive and he's just a psychopath that kills people in this strange, sick way, but let's look at all the other points. She spends three days in a room full of corpses, all of it totally or half naked and it's not full summer yet she's never cold. She was scared when she could not find her heartbeat. She did not eat or drink anything the whole time, and never thought about it. I don't know you, but three days without a single drop of water would not be nice for me. I'm pretty sure I'd think about it, I'd feel a bit thirsty, what do you say?
When she phoned Paul and Deacon caught her and told her he's the only one that can hear her: well, Paul certainly didn't act like he had heard her voice saying "help me", did he?
Nobody else can hear her voice or see her move.
Little detail, I so did not like that the policeman who came to see his dead brother saw her with her head looking up and a moment later with her head looking at her right. So what, the body really moves? I thought Deacon could talk to the soul, or ghost or however you want to call it, but a dead body is a dead body! Let's not talk about the sick perv (the mentioned policeman) who wanted to see the dead girl's naked body, it sickens me.
On one hand I liked this ambiguity, but I think they went too far, as if the body really moved, during that scene with the sick policeman.
The little kid was useless, it had the only purpose of reminding people of the "sixth sense" movie, when it's clear that he has the same "gift" and can see the dead and hear them. Now Eliot is not longer alone, and can teach him how to live with it.
Deacon is an interesting character because he does the same thing for every corpse, trying to convince them to accept their new condition and pass on in peace, but at the same time is disgusted to see  how little they really "lived" their lives, and to witness every time their anger towards him as if he was responsible. It is understandable, but I guess after so many times it becomes tiring.
Oh, let's not forget that when she looked at herself in the mirror she looked cadaveric, and that she never talked when someone else was there, but always moved and talked when alone with Deacon. Most importantly, everyone knew she was dead, the hospital, the police, everybody. It's not like he found her and told the others what he wanted... so she must be dead, this must be the reality. Conclusion, the film has flaws: body moving? tears on a corpse? breath? the strange attitude of Deacon, as if he was afraid anyone could suspect or find out who knows what...
Too much ambiguity.
But it is also a way to reflect on how little some people live their lives when they can, and yet refuse to die, and realize it only when it's too late.
P.s. I could never work among people naked, like actresses or models do. I envy them their money-security, but not this!