Even before I started watching the documentary "Some Kind Of Heaven', just paging through the mixed gauntlet of reviews, I was reminded of a quote from a friend of a friend on Twitter, namely, “Disability is not a personality.” Not that I’m conflating age and disability so much except that mainstream America tends to think of both groups as monolithic, childlike people whose every day should happen somewhere between a doctor’s office and some kind of theme park.
I guess the chief takeaway from this film is that retirement, even in sunny Florida with the strains of classic rock in the background, is not a personality either. Bad planners, people who use drugs(Whether for spiritual seeking or some kind of late-in-life hedonism…it wasn’t really clear to my eye though it caused his more straight-laced wife a great deal of embarrassment. Actual Mom was bored, but I found it to be decent people-watching, in the manner of hanging around the mall back in the day. I do think the sleeve did create the impression that more would happen within the film, but there's a lot of subtext.
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