Ahh yes, the early 90s. I remember I had this purplish-blue sweater, with objects such as rockets and beach balls on it in turquoise-teal, yellow, and pink... Obviously all clothing of that era was limited to these colours.
For me, that notion was my point of recognition; where I was able to jump on and place myself in the same timeframe as the main characters from the series and to continue growing along with them. This alone makes each of these 2+ hour instalments so rewarding and worthwhile. As time catches up with anyone watching, it suddenly dawns on one that the Up series are capturing something distinctly... human.
There's a sense of the spiritual in this one - maybe it's the concepts of family and accepting mortality/death. I think that's definitely a large component to it. Larger than that though is the reward of duration - in seeing this people grow, get challenged, etc, we get a very very small sense of what it must feel like to be God. We worry, excited, etc but can't intervene. These lives aren't heading in the direction we anticipated!
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Jook
And by that I mean 'oh Bruce, you lovely chap'Eddyspeeder
Ahh yes, the early 90s. I remember I had this purplish-blue sweater, with objects such as rockets and beach balls on it in turquoise-teal, yellow, and pink... Obviously all clothing of that era was limited to these colours.For me, that notion was my point of recognition; where I was able to jump on and place myself in the same timeframe as the main characters from the series and to continue growing along with them. This alone makes each of these 2+ hour instalments so rewarding and worthwhile. As time catches up with anyone watching, it suddenly dawns on one that the Up series are capturing something distinctly... human.
Jook
Oh Brucedwzobell
There's a sense of the spiritual in this one - maybe it's the concepts of family and accepting mortality/death. I think that's definitely a large component to it. Larger than that though is the reward of duration - in seeing this people grow, get challenged, etc, we get a very very small sense of what it must feel like to be God. We worry, excited, etc but can't intervene. These lives aren't heading in the direction we anticipated!