Joblo is running this article…again. I realise it must be hard to find a copy in the US but surely they can import? I can buy a brand new German copy from Amazon UK for £15. According to Blu-ray.com its even region free!
Joblo is running this article…again. I realise it must be hard to find a copy in the US but surely they can import? I can buy a brand new German copy from Amazon UK for £15. According to Blu-ray.com its even region free!
Easily torrented.
I watched it recently and the film didn’t age well in the current social climate. Good script, great cast, but the story is about a “magic pill” that will make old people young again. That in itself is not a bad thing, but the end of the movie sees all the old people making the selfish decision to leave their loved ones for their own eternal bliss. I know it was supposed to be a metaphor for death and heaven and such, but now it just looks like Me Generation, head in the sand, fuck you I got mine, Boomerism.
Wilford Brimley’s grandson pleads for him not to go and tries to stow away on the heaven boat. And then Brimley’s like “nope, I choose to never see you again, go fishing by yourself.” If I was a grandpa, every moment with my grandson would be worth giving up an alien immortal orgy. Geez.
The general impression that movie left you with is far different than my take away. I watched that movie as a little girl and I thought it was so beautiful. There’s no magic pill. It was the fountain of youth and at the end they’re taken voluntarily to eternal youthful Bliss with aliens, I guess. The musical score was so beautiful and the cinematography was so beautiful and the happiness I saw in the old people was so beautiful, they were no longer in pain and they could play like children again, it was all beautiful to me.
“No, stay here trapped in a decayng husk with your best days only a distant memory!”