What if we knew our life span?

It all started with the wacky idea, "what if God is real and lives in an apartment in Brussels? And what if that God is a freak who enjoyed screwing people over?" Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael's imagination runs high and far in his latest film "The Brand New Testament," blaming God for all the disasters He created on Earth. The film humorously and sarcastically ― and to some extent blasphemously ― depicts God in a way we would never have imagined ― far from benign but as despicable as he can be. The potbellied God (Benoit Poelvoorde) is human and is living among us in Brussels and apparently fathers a daughter who is kept secluded at home. In unkempt attire, he continually mistreats his daughter and obedient wife, and enjoys the pain he inflicts on human beings by creating silly laws. He creates the Laws of Annoyance such as "the toast always falls jam-side down," "plates always crack after they're washed," or "on whatever line you queue, the other one moves faster." But what outrages his 10-year-old daughter Ea (Pili Groyne) aren't those silly rules. When she peeps in to his computer while accidentally entering his off-limits study room, she discovers that God is crashing trains and planes, setting fire to buildings and creating environmental hazards on purpose. Vindictively determined to help fix the world, Ea, from her father's computer, texts humans on their cell phones the amount of time they have left to live. She then escapes with the help of JC, her brother Jesus Christ who is now a statue figure, to set out on a mission to gather six new apostles to write a new testament to the Bible. God is infuriated when he finds out what his daughter has done because the only reason humans dread and worship him, he believes, is the fact that they don't know when they'll die. The "death leak" causes panic in the human world as some people really turn up dead on the date they're set to die. The issue makes headlines and TV programs start discussing "how to spend the remaining days you have to live," while advertising companies manipulate it for commercial purposes. Some decide to live on as usual while others are determined to change their lives, to finally, for once, do what they want to do. Some, like Kevin, become daredevils testing their fate by jumping off buildings and airplanes (and they miraculously live) since they've got 62 more years to go; while others, like the 10-year-old boy Willy who has 83 days left, decides to live the rest of his life as a girl. Sex maniac Marc decides to spend 200 euros a day on buying sex until the day he dies, while Jean-Claude, a desk worker, seeks to fulfill his dreams as an adventurer living with birds. The film shows human beings making diverse choices after they are notified of their demise. Willy, Marc, and Jean-Claude are three of the six apostles Ea seeks in writing about their stories for her new testament. The rest are Aurelie, an amputee with one arm, Francois, an assassin, and Martine, a loveless housewife who falls in love with a gorilla. In each of her apostles, Ea finds a song within them and helps them find their dreams. The plot starts to drag when Ea sets out to track down her apostles. The film never explains why she must gather her apostles, why the number is six (except Ea's mother is a big fan of 18 that makes up a baseball team and Ea's six and JC's 12 add up to that number), why a newer testament is needed, and why her apostles are the bizarre composition they are. Perhaps these randomly chosen six characters are meant to represent the weaknesses of humanity. Not to spoil the ending, which has a cute and lovely twist, but it is toward the end that the film starts to pick up its speed and become engaging again. "How would you spend the rest of your life if you were notified of your lifespan?" is the overall message the film seems to deliver. When you've left the cinema, you won't be left with the peculiar plot and characters, but the resonating question, "how do I want to live my life?" q1. If you have two choices of whehter to know your life span, which sides do you stand for? and why q2. If you were notified the rest of your whole life, how would you spend? Tell us more detail. q3. If you were GOD, who knows people's remaining days, would you tell them what it is going on? q4. What is your the most important value through your life?