"Meet Joe Black" is a 1998 American fantasy drama film directed by Martin Brest. The movie stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani.

For Bill, however, every moment is borrowed. The film’s true protagonist is not Joe, but Bill Parrish. Hopkins gives a masterclass in restrained grief. Watch his face when Joe casually mentions that Bill will “go with him” to the party at the end. There is no horror, only a quiet, oceanic sadness—the knowledge that all the deals, the power, the love he’s built, will soon be nothing but a memory. Bill’s arc is about achieving grace under the sentence of death. His famous, improvised speech to Susan—“Love is passion, obsession…”—is less about romance and more about a dying man’s reminder to the living to feel.

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So, pour a glass of whiskey. Turn off your phone. And spend three hours with Meet Joe Black. It might just change how you spend your minutes.

At 181 minutes, Meet Joe Black is an exercise in "slow cinema" before the term was popular. It asks the audience to sit with the characters, to feel the weight of their decisions, and to contemplate their own lives.