"Nine Days"

In the movie Nine Days (2021), five newly minted personalities (souls?) show up at a house on a salt flat, an in-between/neither life nor death station, to be interviewed and observed by a caretaker.
At the end of nine days, he will select one of them to be born into life. 

“You will not remember any of this,
but you will still be you.” 

Nine Days is like a response to one of my Story Ideas:
Explore what a process for selecting who gets incarnated on Earth would look like. Use more images than words.

Also, without being preachy:
 Life. Why bother?
Suicide. Depression. What helps?

At the end of the movie, Nine Days, I thought, 
Did I make this movie?  It's the most Pisces movie I've ever seen.*

Japanese-Brazilian director and writer Edson Oda's uncle committed suicide when he was fifty, and Edson was twelve --that was his motivation.
For me, he got it right.

It's a film for people who are already likely to like it. You can judge by the trailer, below.  If this attracts you, you'll probably love it. If not, I think it would leave you unmoved.

 

With Winston Duke as the caretaker, Benedict Wong as his assistant, and, as the candidates, Bill Skarsgard, Zazie Beetz, Tony Hale, and David Rysdahl.
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* Pisces, in this sense (I don't remember where I got this quote):

"Pisces witness to the difficult task of straddling the divide between the human and the divine. More than any other sign, perhaps, Pisces experiences normal human life as limited, for it excludes so much that can make life more complete. 

“Yet, even Pisceans have to live as human beings in a world full of limitations. 
Coming to terms with the necessity to live in a world separate from Paradise can be an immense problem. 

“Some may attempt to live as if exclusion from Paradise had never happened, and live life in a constant daydream, very ineffective in the world as it is. Others, however, may learn to live life in the human arena in such a way as to infuse it with divine meaning."
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I can mention that Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” comes into it. 

This scene (link below) is a spoiler, but even if you’re not interested in the whole movie, you might love this rendition by Winston Duke (Will, the caretaker);

https://youtu.be/pR2i24iJTX4

The lines from Whitman reminded me of a Capt Kirk pin-up vid I made a dozen years ago...

Whitman's  hymn to the male body in "I Sing the Body Electric" could've been written with Kirk in mind ("O Captain, my Captain!"). All lines here are from the poem, though not in the original order.

Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" seems tailor made…