Over the past few weeks I've been watching Michael Alpert's "Up Series" that chronicles the lives of over a dozen Brits from age 7, starting in 1964, into their forties in 2005. What I love most about this film is that nobody has an overtly happy marriage. It's a great document in the kinds of terrible compromise necessary for long term relationships. Equally difficult is the autonomous life. Overall, the movie makes living look rather exhausting and unglorious. Daily struggles consume the characters...Regardless, the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. There are no American Dream delusions in this series. Amazing documentary revealing the tedium of this purgatory--life.
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