28 Up
1985 Directed by Michael Apted
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So much for reviewing them all at 56. Families, kids, wives, husbands, there are more characters now. There is content now, stability, success, failure, at 28 years of age are these select few any closer to finding out who they truly are. 28 is past my age, so here we have glimpses into a projected future of few, in both horrifying and mystifying ways. Do we lie to ourselves or do we change at such a rate we barely comprehend it?
21 - Says she's too cynical for marriage, hates kids
28 - Happily married (at 22), two kids21 - Says women aren't for him past one night stands
28 - Now happily married with two kids21 -…
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Still interesting, in some cases fascinating, to see how these lives have developed but there's a lot of duplicated footage, and it's a shame that two of the public school educated men didn't wish to participate.
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So much for reviewing them all at 56. Families, kids, wives, husbands, there are more characters now. There is content now, stability, success, failure, at 28 years of age are these select few any closer to finding out who they truly are. 28 is past my age, so here we have glimpses into a projected future of few, in both horrifying and mystifying ways. Do we lie to ourselves or do we change at such a rate we barely comprehend it?
21 - Says she's too cynical for marriage, hates kids
28 - Happily married (at 22), two kids21 - Says women aren't for him past one night stands
28 - Now happily married with two kids21 -…
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Fourth installment of the Up series. This is the first episode that really pays big dividends for having followed the series. The participants' range of journeys really spreads out, from budding nuclear physicist(!) to jobless countryside wanderer. Many of them are also suddenly married with kids. And class divisions weigh lightly as, for now, most appear to be complacent with the lots they've drawn.
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This is the entry that centers on money, with most of the crew making crucial decisions about work and family life, along with how much money they need for their standards of living. There's finally enough footage to draw upon so that there can be some interesting comparisons and contrasts within each subject. Also, big up to John, the rich dude who, upon reviewing his footage from the previous installments, "had nothing to add."
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I watched this one as a 28-year-old so obviously I can relate to it better than you.
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did you know even poor brits can play golf? WOW!
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There's not much I can say about 28 Up that I haven't already said about its predecessors and successors: they together represent the ultimate truth that the drama of everyday life is just as gripping as the greatest story concocted by the greatest imagination. We don't realise it day to day, but it's easy to see across the course of seven years that our existences are the most poignant cosmic dramas, finely balanced between hope and disappointment, happiness and depression, healthiness and death. This series doesn't just chronicle life; it is life.
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The UP SERIES forth film was a bit surprising to me, granted i guess it really shouldn't have been. Having recently gone through my late 20's it was quite a contrast to what the participants are going through at age 28.
Granted that kind of makes sense because i'm not from that generation nor am i from Britain but i feel like there is always a commonality to connecting humans. It's hard not to reflect on one's own life while watching these films and thinking over what choices you've made.
The thing that was surprising to me was how many of the participants where married with at least two kids. Thinking about it now i guess that's not too surprising…
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Still interesting, in some cases fascinating, to see how these lives have developed but there's a lot of duplicated footage, and it's a shame that two of the public school educated men didn't wish to participate.
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Best as part of the full series.