Michael Apted, the director and person most responsible for the "UP" series, himself died in 2019, less than one month before he turned 80. If nothing else this placed a punctuation mark on the concept of aging, we are all here temporarily, and with this most recent film we look at the surviving kids at 63, a reasonable retirement age for many people.
This is a landmark, one-of-a-kind, series of films has been a very enlightening story arc, studying how kids change over the decades and how accurate is the concept "show me a boy at 7 and I'll show you the man." As I have watched it over the years I often found myself envious, wishing I had such a film of my growing up.
In most prior years I was able to get the DVD of the series from my local library but this time I had to rely on streaming programming available online.
A very good watch especially for those of us who have watched all the prior installments.
This is a landmark, one-of-a-kind, series of films has been a very enlightening story arc, studying how kids change over the decades and how accurate is the concept "show me a boy at 7 and I'll show you the man." As I have watched it over the years I often found myself envious, wishing I had such a film of my growing up.
In most prior years I was able to get the DVD of the series from my local library but this time I had to rely on streaming programming available online.
A very good watch especially for those of us who have watched all the prior installments.