Review of Youth (2015) by Jay N — 30 Mar 2016
A monumental piece of framework of cinema.
Feels super-long but it's a carefully, insightful look into seniority.
Top-of-the-line peformances from Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda.
Fantastic scenery matches the feelings.
In a hotel full of the elderly you see everyone's day-to-day routine just flowing through like blood cells.
But the film is more than just looking at people's lives slowly withering away.
People are either beautiful or ugly in their age, you tend to look at things closer when you're young and further when you are older, emotions are all we have, children don't often know their own parents' ordeals but most of all, youth just waits for all of us outside in the world.
A famous composer's daughter faces the fact that her husband has left her for someone else and on top of it all she's still living with the pain her father caused her and her mother because of bad decisions he didn't take into account.
It's more than just the biological clock slowly ticking away.
The modern problems can still affect us all until the end of time.
A good film telling us age doesn't have to define us entirely.
This review of Youth (2015) was written by Jay N on 30 Mar 2016.
Youth has generally received positive reviews.
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