Meet Joe Black (1998), directed by Martin Brest, is a romantic fantasy drama where Death takes human form to understand life. Brad Pitt stars as Joe Black, who inhabits the body of a young man and enters the life of media tycoon William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins). As Joe falls in love with Parrish’s daughter (Claire Forlani), he begins to feel the beauty and pain of human emotion. The film is a slow, poetic meditation on mortality, love, and the fleeting nature of time. Elegant, melancholic, and deeply philosophical—it’s death with a heartbeat.
