In the 1998 film “What Dreams May Come,” a pediatrician played by Robin Williams is transported to the afterlife after a car crash. There, he reunites with long-lost loved ones, and heaven — at least his idea of it — is a series of landscapes that recall his wife’s paintings.
The doctor reaches out to touch a blue flower, possibly an iris. Then, when he wraps his hand around it, the petals dissolve into a thick coat of indigo paint.