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After life, what?

Personal Shopper (2016)
Almost halfway through the movie, clueless of its genre, I remained lost. I did not understand why the protagonist, Maureen, was buying expensive clothes and jewellery but not wearing them or rather is forbidden to don them. Maureen is a personal shopper of a celebrity who cannot possibly be seen in public shopping!

Maureen has a genetic heart condition which was shared by her recently demised twin brother. She had not come in term with her loss as he was apparently healthy before his heart attack. Maureen, who considers herself a clairvoyant, tries to communicate with her brother for personal closure. In the interim, she moonshines as a seer to ascertain whether a house is haunted before it is sold. She also gets a mysterious text from an unknown number. The situation gets murky when her employer is murdered brutally, and she is muddled in the police investigations. After she is cleared of any wrongdoings, she continues her pursuit of contacting her dead brother.

Mankind has always wondered at the vastness of the Universe and the waste of space around us if we were the only living beings around. The whole Big Bang could not have happened just for us. People started toying with the idea that, perhaps, lifeforms dwelled in different realms. The ending of life in one plane just transports them to another and another. The 'soul', having unfinished businesses on Earth, may wander around for psychics to be a conduit for the living to say their peace. Whether these experiences are real or quackery is of personal choice. Is it that the dead are desperately trying to relate through obscure methods or are existing ones just convincing themselves that such a thing is actually happening? Are some just too insensitive to observe the subtle changes around them and the others just making something out of nothing at all? 

Are the dead souls out there really looking out for us? Like a guiding star, like a guardian angel. Do they 'scream' at us trying to prevent us from doing something so wrong? Or is life just 'Game Over' and everything goes BLANK! Like a TV station that has stopped transmission.
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