This is the premise of Nine Days, Edson Oda’s odd, affecting portrait of a prelife purgatory A cross between a Gondry-esque chin-stroker and a Zen Buddhist tweak on The Good Place, Nine Days - so named for the length it takes to choose a candidate for birth - has its share of near-twee tics. If not, perhaps the man will do what he can to give us one fleeting moment of happiness before we disappear into the ether. If we are lucky, we are chosen to go forth, from cradle to grave. And when he’s not doing that, he’s reviewing former “vacancies” that he’s filled, watching on a bank of monitors displaying numerous lives in progress. Small granny spectacles perch on his nose as he asks questions of those who sit before him. The interrogator is tall, quiet, fastidious, well-dressed. Before we can get on that particular merry-go-round, however, we must first be interviewed.
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