Youth and Age
I enjoyed In Time quite a lot, actually. In it, people stop aging at 25, but can live indefinitely; thus, the characters can be even as old as 125, but all the actors are 25. And despite all its clever and skillful execution, there was one thing the talented cast and crew could not pull off: having experienced eyes staring out from inside a youthful form. The 25-year-olds simply, quite literally, didn’t have it in them. Whether a young person is an old soul, or a grownup who never properly grew up, there’s just something about having been around for a bit (or not). Following are excellent illustrations of how one’s age informs one’s decisions.
Examples of Youth and Age in Film
- A Single Man
- About a Boy
- About Last Night…
- American Beauty
- An Education
- Arthur (1981)
- Batman Begins
- Beaches
- Blue Valentine
- Bridget Jones’ Diary
- Brokeback Mountain
- Casino
- City Slickers
- Dad
- Dinner with Friends
- Dolores Claiborne
- Everything is Illuminated
- Flipped
- Friday Night Lights
- Friends with Money
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- Guinivere
- Harold and Maude
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Heartburn
- Hope Floats
- Howl
- Interiors
- Juno
- Keeping the Faith
- La Mission
- Larry Crowne
- Life is Beautiful
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Lone Star
- Major League
- Murphy’s Romance
- Mystic River
- Network
- On Golden Pond
- Papillon
- Red
- Red
- Rushmore
- Saturday Night Fever
- Scrooge
- Searching for Debra Winger
- Sholem Aleichim: Laughing in the Darkness
- Sixteen Candles
- Snow Falling on Cedars
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Something’s Gotta Give
- Stand By Me
- Star Trek (2009)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Submarine
- Terms of Endearment
- The Best of Times
- The Big Chill
- The Big Kahuna
- The Cider House Rules
- The Family That Preys
- The Graduate
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Savages
- The September Issue
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Tree of Life
- Thunder Soul
- Titanic
- Up
- Up in the Air
- Warrior
- We Don’t Live Here Anymore
- Whale Rider
- Whatever Works
- When Harry Met Sally…
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Young @ Heart
Libra, INTP, English Major, 
Back from a seriously scary health relapse in mid-October and returning to action. Kudos to my patient friends and colleagues, you're the best. New programs and more unrolling this year, here's to 2012!
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