Having returned from the roaring version (the latitudes in the southern hemisphere) recently I find myself at a crossroads. In terms of my present life spent on the planet as measured in years and if there is anything remotely roaring about that. Not quite a mid life crisis it is a time to ponder what was but I have concluded /decided to focus on what could be..
Coincidentally happened on a couple of movies recently that shed some perspective on this very situation - in a kinda sorta way..
One from Hollywood called 'This is 40' starring Paul Rudd (who I recently became acquainted with - in some other role and who is one of the protagonist in the said title) with some woman who I have never seen before but played her part well of a vain somewhat spoilt mother of two (and happens to be the real life wife of the director - who I suspect also threw in his kids in a kid role to save dineros). My fave (one of) comedian, Albert Brooks lent a nice supporting cast as the father of Paul's character. This Southern California lifestyle maxed to the hilt couple with their daughters is coping with their respective passions and trying to figure out whether marrying was the right thing to do a decade or so ago.
The other version (with not quite forty somethings) came from Bollywood in the Occident titled 'Dil Kabbadi' which I later found was a take on Woody Allen's creation called Husbands and Wives. At any rate the cast was skillful and playful as the role required it to be. A story of relatively older couples without kids in modern India and their experiments with truth (as in in and out of marriage).
Interestingly the masters of moviedom in either continent gave respective productions 2 stars, so I am not sure if my palate is consistent with the larger demographic. Any rate I found these light-hearted takes on the silliness that a social contract of marriage brings and the societal pressures it produces on those in that contract.
Coincidentally happened on a couple of movies recently that shed some perspective on this very situation - in a kinda sorta way..
One from Hollywood called 'This is 40' starring Paul Rudd (who I recently became acquainted with - in some other role and who is one of the protagonist in the said title) with some woman who I have never seen before but played her part well of a vain somewhat spoilt mother of two (and happens to be the real life wife of the director - who I suspect also threw in his kids in a kid role to save dineros). My fave (one of) comedian, Albert Brooks lent a nice supporting cast as the father of Paul's character. This Southern California lifestyle maxed to the hilt couple with their daughters is coping with their respective passions and trying to figure out whether marrying was the right thing to do a decade or so ago.
The other version (with not quite forty somethings) came from Bollywood in the Occident titled 'Dil Kabbadi' which I later found was a take on Woody Allen's creation called Husbands and Wives. At any rate the cast was skillful and playful as the role required it to be. A story of relatively older couples without kids in modern India and their experiments with truth (as in in and out of marriage).
Interestingly the masters of moviedom in either continent gave respective productions 2 stars, so I am not sure if my palate is consistent with the larger demographic. Any rate I found these light-hearted takes on the silliness that a social contract of marriage brings and the societal pressures it produces on those in that contract.
marriage is a self-created crisis of mammoth proportions.
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