So the Film Festival finally started (for me at least) last night! As an usher, I got to watch all of the film, which was Young @ Heart. So I have wanted to see this film for like 9 months? Its been a long time… But it was worth the wait! It really did make me laugh AND cry!! I thought the director did a really great job of making the audience fall in love with all of the characters really quickly, which made it heartbreaking when some of them passed. I think everyone could see one of their grandparents in that choir which made the whole thing really relatable. And it was all so inspiring! I think there are alot of people aroung my age or younger who would say that they never want to get that old, they would be happy to die when they’re like 50 (I have definitely said this at least once in my life…). This film made me want to live until I’m at least 80. Some of these people seem to have experienced some of their greatest moments in life when they were over the age of 60, it really made me want to live forever. And it motivated me to do more with my life! If they’re doing amazing things with all their health problems and I’m doing not much with NO problems, I should really start doing something. I really liked the attitude some of the characters had, you can see that they’ve been around for a long time and they have a great no-nonsense attitude, they don’t care about what anyone thinks and they just say and do whatever they like, I wish I could adopt that attitude at my young age of 24 but I think its going to take another 50 years…
Enough film rambling, I have done not much at work today and it has been great. I’m almost done for the day and then I’m back to Somerville at 5:30 for a door shift. I should eat somewhere in there too. Today has been full of myspace mixtapes made by me, I have been trying to discover new bands, I feel like my music tastes have been very stagnant lately, its getting a little tedious… Its been full of etsy.com as well. I think I’m going to buy this!
Cute huh!
I’ve also been cruising the IKEA website because I am moving out of home in a week! Exciting times! I’m moving into an area with so many potential awesome hangout opportunities, its going to be amazing! Summer of friendship!!
December 4, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Hey Nathalie – glad you liked the film and thanks for the comments! Just found this blog in a google alert – I’m getting this sort of reaction from all over the world and it’s truly inspiring. My editor Chris King and I knew we were dealing with some very special material when we cut the film in London but not on this worldwide scale…
An extraordinary ride over the last year…
Tell all your friends! And thanks,
Stephen Walker
Director
‘Young@Heart’
Walker George Films Ltd
London
December 6, 2008 at 9:26 pm
YOU JUST HAD A SUMMER OF FRIENDSHIP ?!