Judgment City

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Judgment City is a fictional afterlife waystation depicted as a pleasant, bureaucratic city where the recently deceased undergo a legal-style review of their lives in the film "Defending Your Life."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf afterlife waystation
fictional city
fictional location
accessedBy people after death
aestheticStyle clean and comfortable resort-like city
appearsIn Defending Your Life NERFINISHED
associatedWithCharacter Daniel Miller NERFINISHED
Julia NERFINISHED
defense attorney Bob Diamond NERFINISHED
countryOfOriginOfWork United States of America
surface form: United States
createdBy Albert Brooks NERFINISHED
depictedAs bureaucratic city
pleasant city
genreContext fantasy comedy
governedBy judicial tribunal
hasFeature courtrooms
hotels for the dead
modern urban environment
observation rooms for trials
orientation services for newcomers
recreational attractions
restaurants with unlimited food
transportation system for souls
hasProcess defense and prosecution of a soul
life review hearings
judgmentOutcomeOptions being sent back to Earth
moving on to a higher plane
languageOfSetting English
legalSystemType adversarial hearing
locatedInFictionalUniverse afterlife realm of Defending Your Life
medium film
narrativeRole central setting of Defending Your Life
notableIn portrayals of the afterlife in film
populationType administrative staff
defense attorneys
judges
prosecutors
recently deceased humans
primaryFunction afterlife judgment center
waystation for the recently deceased
reviewBasis examination of key life episodes
targetResidentsEmotion reduce fear and anxiety
technologyLevel similar to late 20th-century American city
thematicRole commentary on fear and personal growth
satire of bureaucracy
timePerception resembles contemporary Earth time
usedFor legal-style review of lives
yearOfFirstAppearance 1991

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Defending Your Life setting Judgment City