The Blue Man is Never a Happy Man

When one of the park's rides suddenly malfunctions one day, Eddie tries to save a young girl from being crushed beneath it, and loses his life in the process. As though awakening from a dream, he finds himself alone in the deserted theme park and decides to explore. (Wikipedia)

The Blue Man, incidentally, is the first person Eddie meets in heaven. He’s part of a sideshow in the Ruby Pier, a park for kids with so many fantastic rides. He waits for Eddie to teach him a lesson on “knowing that each one is connected to one another.” Eddie, whether aware or not, has caused the death of this freak of the carnival. He got a car crash due to Eddie, the boy running a bicycle. They don’t know each other until the Blue Man tells and Eddie hears his first lesson. Eddie leaves the earth at the age of 83 and finds out how he has affected lives of other people from birth to death. This preliminary set up between and among dead people is prelude to getting face-to-face to what awaits a soul in heaven.

The Blue Man is never a happy man. He’s had a bad childhood memory and tasted life’s curses and pain. Why would he be the first man to meet?

He’s got nitrate for a medicine from a doctor for having no fee to give.
He’s traded youth to acquaintances’ and audiences’ abuse.
He is left with no choice.
He has to perform to live.

Eddie’s own boyhood is not unpleasant at all but the Man’s even more difficult to take. Eddie is loved by his parents and has an older brother. He may have big fights but he succeeds over all of these. He’s got teases and Marguerite.