Gladiator scene analysis

In this scene Maximus is walking through the fields to his family in the afterlife. The entire film we are given these flash backs of What looks like Maximus's hand grazing over this wheat. Initially in the opening scenes we are given the impression that he is reliving happier moments in his life and that is portrayed by the uplifting light sound of the music. we are never given a clear image of where Maximus is or what he is walking towards until the end of the film where the paths of reality and these visions cross. Upon Maximus's death we finally see his body walking through the fields and and we see that he is walking towards his family. It is now clear to see that Maximus's day dreams of a better time were really his visions of being with his family again and the difference between life and death is his being with his family