CSI Reflections

Aside from entertainment, watching CSI makes its viewers reflect - at least in my case. My most recent reflection is on their 2nd episode of Season 6. I was wondering why the director chose to juxtapose two crimes scenes on one screen. At first I thought they used it to give the viewers some hint that these two cases were related - that is, one case is connected with the other. It was only at the end of the episode, thanks to good direction, that I realized why they had to put these two crime scenes side by side. The last scene of the episode shows the body of Julian Harper, a rich GQ model, was wheeled toward the camera feet first with the tag around the left toe, and the the body of Noi Dipraxay, a Laos native sweat shop worker, wheeled in in the same way beside Julian. When we die, rich or poor, we all are the same carcass. We are made of the same stuff, but the difference lies on how we live our lives as recorded in our incorruptible souls. Whether we question our soul's existence or where our souls go after we die is an existential question we ought to ask ourselves.