Meet Joe Black -1998- Updated -

The premise of Meet Joe Black is deceptively simple, yet philosophically profound. What if Death, the eternal reaper, decided to take a holiday? What if, instead of being a terrifying specter, Death was curious about the very thing it steals: life.

On the surface, Meet Joe Black is a love story between a mortal woman and an immortal being. But beneath that, it is a rigorous philosophical inquiry: Meet Joe Black -1998-

It does. At a coffee shop, Susan meets a charming, earnest young man (Brad Pitt) with a golden retriever’s smile. Their flirtation is electric, natural, and cut tragically short when the man steps into traffic and is hit by two cars in a sequence of shocking, unceremonious violence. He dies on the sidewalk. The premise of Meet Joe Black is deceptively