Wow! I could not watch any part of this movie without thinking about worldviews. The movie focused on the afterlife, which made it very easy for the filmwriters to project the cosmic humanist worldview into the movie. There were absolutely tons of examples of this, but the one that stands out to me the most is when Chris is standing with his son (although he didn't know him as his son at the time) in his painted "heaven," and his son tells him that "everything is spiritual - the physical is just an illusion." This was often played out in 'heaven' by Chris being able to be/see wherever or whatever he wanted just by imagining it. The movie also included reincarnation at the end when Chris and Annie when back as children and they met each other for the first time again.
This movie was very disturbing to me, especially the scenes where the hellish creatures capsize their boat on the way to hell. Aside from Christianity, life (and therefore death) would have no meaning whatsoever because God is the context for all meaning in our lives. Aside from this Absolute, I would try to derive as much meaning out of my own life as I could by doing all sorts of crazy things. I would want a worldview like this because it has no boundaries. However, because God gives our lives inherent meaning, I don't need the vile, sinful acts to make me satisfied anymore. I have Jesus.
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