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Re: Truth is... there are as many retirement stories as there are people

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on August 19, 2005 at 13:00:56

In Reply to: Truth is... there are as many retirement stories as there are people posted by Victor Khomenko on August 19, 2005 at 12:28:01:

I think you are taking the story too literal. He not only retires, but also looses his wife, and soon thereafter, finds out that she was having an affair with his best friend, and then, to top it all off, is about to watch his only daughter become married. You left those salient facts out of your post. I think that those added facts illustrate that this film was not meant to be anything more than entertainment. Maybe there is someone, somewhere, who has experienced all these events at roughly the same time, but I doubt it.

Besides, I am not sure how any film can teach one about retirement, marriage, love, etc., any more than they can teach you how to fish, build a boat, a house, or design an amplifier. If film is where you go for enlightenment, perhaps a trip outside is appropriate.

Having written all that, is it believable that a man who has recently retired, nothing to keep him at home, with a newly purchased motor home sitting in the driveway, depart on wheels to his daughter's abode in order to attend his wedding, and in the midst of that travel, take side trips to places of meaning for him? Absolutely. I think that was the essence of Rico's post. Those journeys would take different people to different places, but many people in his situation would take that journey.

Funny, you did not levy the same "real life" critism with "Love Me if You Dare", a film with far less of a foot in real life. But then, it was not American, and maybe, contrary to my limited observations, Europeans spend more time playing mind games with each other than contemplating the meaning of life.

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