I think that this film portrays the messed up-ness of humanity, how we are so addicted to feeling good, having fun, even if it isn't real. Our ability to invent something with an idea so complicated and messed up (for us now, who have not been in contact with the insane advance technology , all for one reason, for us to have fun.
This series looks into the lives of two old people - both on the verge of real physical death - being in a human-designed cloud system of a changeable eras for old people, to live in their young and fit bodies.
The system is a metaphor of a more realistic, relatable and desirable form of 'heaven' (or at least for the people from that time frame) - partying all day all night, living like they're never going to die.
The first character that enters the film is Yorki, an awkward and naive character in the system whom we eventually find out suffered from paralysation since she was 21. That explains her inexperience and her helpless desperation in the beginning. Because of being paralysed since 21, she hasn't met enough people, didn't see much of the world, and is selfish, not taking much of other's circumstances into consideration, which is in contrast to Kelly, who's "given so much of her life to her husband".
Kelly, a woman who has lived pretty much a well rounded life, battled, bruised and had lived through it all, she wishes to leave everything, life in the real world as well as the system as she feels certain respect and maybe some guilt (that she denies of having) for her husband, whom she spent 49 years with, and her late daughter. They're not there to enjoy the rest of that "life" with her. I think that Kelly had a initial attraction towards Yorki because of her innocence, which is the opposite of her worn out and tired soul. She finds herself trying to not get attached while being in the system, perhaps was because she knows how love is so tiring, and having it once in her life is more than enough. But later in the film she made the choice to stay with Yorki in the system. What caused her to make such decision? Is it the element of her partner's change of gender, a gender that in the real world she never made a move for?
I think that the people that chose to continue in the system are ignorant, choosing not to acknowledge the need of death that comes with the birth of life.
So did Kelly made that decision because of how humane she essentially is? Just wanting to have fun, despite the ups and downs of life that is supposed to lead her into giving in to and accepting the natural ending of life?
The film ends with 'happily ever after' somewhat, both women present in a carefree world, living forever young and wild. The question is that, is it really a happy ending? Because we as humans, with our complexities, could we really expect to live on happily every single day, partying non stop and knowing that we can never die? No matter how we attempt suicide.
So is it a true happy ending or does it demonstrate how in need we as humans are of investing in the next moment, wanting it to be all good and fun, and choosing not to look at the larger picture, realising how such system should not exist.
This film is beyond great. It plays the scenes out in a uniform fashion, bit by bit leaving traces of information revealing the essential backdrop of the story.
Demonstrating again and again that things are not as easy and superficial as they seem.
This story is brewed spectacularly, adding in tones of different eras, incorporating old and young, maturity and innocence, complications and simple mindless joy, with the consideration of our immortality, of how humans are capable of avoiding the naturally inevitable and to be in an unrealistic blissful ignorance forever.
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