I watched Eternity on Apple TV.

It's a romantic comedy starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, and Kalem Turner.

The premise is intriguing. When a person dies, they arrive at a space called 'The Junction,' which is like a transfer station.

There, they must choose a world to spend eternity in within a week, and they can only select one partner to accompany them. Once chosen, it cannot be undone.

The protagonist, Joan, meets two men in this place.

Larry, her husband, with whom she lived for 65 years, raised children, and grew old, and Luke, her first love, who died in the Korean War shortly after their wedding and waited for her in the Junction for decades.

In the afterlife, everyone returns to their youthful selves from their happiest times, making the scene of the three standing together emotionally complex.

At first, I found myself pondering a common question.

Is love in this life different from love in the afterlife? Which is real: the person who stood by you your whole life or the love that you never fully experienced?

However, as I followed the film, my questions gradually shifted.

Larry was not a perfect husband. He was grumpy and clumsy.

The 65 years they spent together were filled not only with love but also with arguments, disappointments, and unspoken feelings.

In contrast, Luke, who died as a soldier in the Korean War, is a person frozen in time.

Since they never had the chance to grow old together, there were no fights or disappointments.

Perhaps the beauty of love with Luke lies in the fact that it never reached its end.

So, throughout the movie, I kept thinking this.

Choosing someone in the afterlife is much easier than truly loving someone in this life.

I wondered if Joan's hesitation stemmed from the feelings she couldn't express or confirm while she was alive.

Watching the two men strive to win Joan's heart during their week in the Junction made me think about how they could have acted differently while they were alive.

Those scenes were both funny and strangely painful.

In fact, we are similar. Saying thank you to someone we see every day is often the hardest, and the longer we are together, the more we take each other's feelings for granted.

Sometimes, it is much harder to share a warm word at the dinner table tonight than to promise eternity.

When we put off words we intend to say, thinking we can do it later, those opportunities can vanish before we know it.

Perhaps the film's setting of a week in the Junction serves as a reminder of this.

The movie flows lightly and cheerfully. There are many humorous moments that poke fun at the bureaucratic system of the afterlife, and the chemistry among the three actors is great.

Especially, Larry, played by Miles Teller, is both annoying and endearing, making it hard not to root for him.

However, as the ending credits roll, one question remains rather than laughter.

Am I truly loving the person next to me right now?

I hope you check who Joan chooses for yourself.

However, after watching the movie, you will likely want to say a word to the person next to you before contemplating eternity.