What Nightmares May Come

What Dreams May Come is pretty similar to Dante's Inferno. What Dreams May Come follows a man as he journeys through hell to find his wife, Inferno follows a man as he tries to find his mistress. The difference is that Chris Nielsen (What Dreams May Come) Only Goes down to the seventh level of hell while Dante goes through hell, purgatory, and heaven. The movie has some inclusion of the book in it in the other circles of hell. One difference in punishment is that Chris's wife, a suicide, had a punishment based on her imagination. Inferno gave everyone the same punishment, suicides were trees being picked at by harpies. 

Note that this boat in heaven has a similar look to the one 

Annie was sailing when she met Chris (Red Triangular sails)

Some similarities are that Chris and Dante both had Guides, Virgil and The Tracker. They also both had similar reasons that they traveled through hell, to find their women. Also, they both came out of hell alive, which is pretty rare biblically. there is significant symbolism in colors and other things in What Dreams May Come water plays a big part in the movie. They meet in a lake, riding boats, and Then chris's heaven has that same lake where he can walk on water, breath underwater, and the he eventually travels to hell on a boat. what i think this could symbolize is that although blood is thicker than water, water can help us reconnect with our blood and be just as important to us. The tracker, who was really Doc, supported Chris through his journey to hell to find his wife, Chris also thought that Ian was Doc by his appearance. And he Treated doc like family, so water can be just as important as blood.

This part made me really sad for some reason, 

Just the fact that his name is Ian and my worst fear is 

having a bad relationship with my dad.