What is a "gerontological" movie? What makes a movie "gerontological"? Is it a "good" thing to have movies which are "gerontological"? If you want to know the answers to all these questions - go see the movie Lucky. 88 minutes of breathing, seeing and feeling old age. One real old man - Lucky - played so wonderfully by Harry Dean Stanton (who died soon after the movie was released) - is the center of the movie. Nothing really "happens" in the movie: Lucky, a lone old US Navy veteran, who lives on his own in a small distant Arizona town, has a rigid daily routine: walking around town, stopping at the local coffee shop, and going to his favorite bar. We follow him closely along this daily routine. This changes when one day Lucky collapses at home. This is basically it. Not much. But this is the beauty of gerontological movies: one trivial occurrence opens the gate - through the wonderful play of Lucky - to so many key human aging issues: fear of death, the meaning of friendship, the essence of life. This may sound a bit philosophical - but so is this melodic movie: it looks at old age and older people straight in the eyes without any screens or filters: simply with love and humbleness. Go see the movie and fall in love with gerontological movies.
Year: 2017
Director: John Carrol Lynch
USA
Link to official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KLLkj84GAo
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