First Draft for the Film

The film opens with a black screen. After a couple of seconds, a very fast series of images and videos could play showing the start and end of a person's life.  The duration for these images would be short, and after they are finished playing, the screen returns to its black state.

This is meant to represent the course of someone's life as events happening in a chronological order in which time is strictly linear. 

The two black screens are the state of the human soul before life and after death. They are black because they are undefined and unknown. 

After the introduction of the film, this will become a relevant plot point and serves as foreshadowing when placed in the opening of the film.

Once this is over, the film will truly open with the main character dying or in the process of dying in the near future. It will be established that he has done some reprehensible things in his lifetime that he regrets deeply. Or things he wanted to do that he thought he was unable to.

Once his final moments arrive he starts an inner monologue and as he draws his last breath - He dies. The screen returns to black and for a second, the monologue stops. But then it continues. The main character realizes he's not really dead. Then, a strange voice speaks out to him. He explains that he is a supernatural being called a God of Death/Grim Reaper that allows him to re-live some parts of his life.