Movie Review: “My Old Ass”
…because I was fortunate to see the premiere
Premiere movies are fun to go to because there’s always a little extra magic in the air as the theater goes dark to enable new light to start playing. When I saw this premiere last week, the promoters sponsored a raffle (for an amazon.com gift certificate that I did not win) and an opportunity to answer the question, “What would you say to your younger self?”
And, just so you know, the title of this movie relates to a question the younger character asks the older character.
When you are at a marker on your age timeline, the question of what you’d tell your younger self is layered with other questions: At what age would you choose to be the teller and/or the tell-ee? What advice would you give? What advice would you take? What advice would you beg for?
Would you be 15 listening to yourself at the age of 19 giving wisdom on how to pass the driver’s license test? Would you be 99 lamenting your third marriage at the age of 89? Would you be your fetus at eight months in utero asking yourself as a pre-verbal toddler why the birth canal seems like such a scary place?
The movie “My Old Ass” provides a great landscape for the premise of knowing what you’re not supposed to know yet. Here is a list of phrases that have cropped up in the field that this movie planted in my memory:
Neutral mother.
Cranberry bog.
Hormone fuel.
Observant friends.
Room mush.
Renaissance human.
Brother brother!
Motor drop.
College promises.
August sadness.
Perhaps that list will not motivate you to see this film as I’d hoped it would, but the question(s) it raises are thought provoking and the camera work is phenomenal. When I left the screening, I know my blood pressure score was at least 10 points lower than it was when I’d entered and it was likely due to the gorgeous union of film and light and landscapes.
On a personal note, I did take a chance to leave an answer about what I’d choose to tell my younger self…and I did not even have to imagine any age difference. What I would tell my younger self at 2, 27, 38, or yesterday is this: Live your life with more love and less judgement because love closes all the spaces that judgment creates.
And I thank my friend ShaRon Rea who is on a mission to promote No Judgment. Just Love.® at www.njjl.world.
I also thank my friend, author Linda Heart, for writing Mrs. Velvet and the Blue String Theory (www.amazon.com/Velvet-Blue-String-Theory-Book/dp/0615671934) because that book contains a younger character living a parallel life with her older self.
There is a lot of creativity in this world of humanity, and it is such an honor for me to be able to experience it!
Thank you for reading this post. Not many people do, and I like it that way!
