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The Age of Commercialism

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

hyped garbage

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This is most likely how senior, retired citizens with a bit of money feel. If they have pets and yes the pets gets old too and they die, then comes an inexplicable sadness that can manifests itself in several ways. The loneliness during one's sunset years. Blythe Danner's done good . As Carol you can feel with her daily rut, being scared of a rat , playing cards with her ladies, and the attachment she feels when another lonely person comes her way and they form a bond even if just for a short time. It is a delightful dramedy, we're all going that way anyways and I'm just hoping that when my golden days dawn upon me, I'll look as good as Blythe Danner did in this film.

Blythe Danner belts out Cry Me A River at Karaoke in this film that there was talk would bring her an Oscar nomination. Where did that all go?As a woman bogged down in her life with the memory of a husband killed in a plane crash 20 years before, a dog that she just put to sleep and a bunch of wily friends living near her at a senior center, Danner seems to be plodding along as life is passing her by.Despite her resistance to resuming a social life after all these years, the retired teacher soon finds herself enthralled with a wealthy Sam Elliot who suddenly comes into her life, as well as a young man who cleans her pool.The film shows that resuming one's life is possible at any time; although, you had better look out for what can happen.Nice seeing Rhea Perlman as one of the ladies. When she asked for a beer, I was immediately brought back to television's Cheers.

If you cannot accept the idea that a somewhat eccentric old lady would name a male dog "Hazel," forget this movie. You are too much a literalist to understand anything except the surface story, which won't make sense or be very interesting.Rat: A *thing* or "significant emotional event" that forces a person out of her comfort zone, i.e., the rut she has got into in retirement. Or rather than a "rut," is it her "grove?" Don't think of the rat as merely a black rodent. The rat is that "significant emotional event" that forces the protagonist to reexamine her life.Home (house): Comfort zone.Lloyd the Pool Guy: Youth - Don't think of Lloyd the Pool Guy as a male romantic interest – Lloyd is youth revisited, there to help Carol reexamine her own past and explore her values. Bill (Sam Elliott): examination of a second life in old age to try and regain youth – offers consideration of staying active, as opposed to just sitting around watching TV and playing bingo (or bridge). Remember, opening scenes are Carol watching TV in bed and playing bridge. Bill is Romance personified. He helps Carol reexamine her feelings and emotions and whether she needs another person in her life. "So What": Miles Davis blues song about fifteen minutes of fame, then you leave the stage and rediscover your grove. Plot: Hazel the dog dies and leaves Carol alone. The rat chases her out of her home. She confronts Lloyd. She meets and dates Bill, who takes her out on his boat "So What." Bill dies. Lloyd sings Carol the title song and disposes of the rat. Carol gets a new dog (an old one) and, with the rat disposed of, moves back into her old home. Speed Dating session presents an overt look at several objectionable stereotypical male personality types that a woman may face if she opens herself up to the possibility of exploring an autumn romance.The song Lloyd sings at Karaoke night signifies that Carol is all alone with memories of her youth. The song that Carol sings says that she has cried over her lost youth, but youth can cry now because she is happy in her old age. The title song "I'll See You In My Dreams" speaks of seeing youth through dreams of the past; add "- th" to the word "You" throughout the song.When Carol returns to the bar near the end of the movie, Karaoke is not available (no second chance) and she first orders the new drink she was introduced to the first time at the bar, but then she changes her mind and opts for the old drink she shared with "Youth" (Lloyd) when examining their relationship in song through karaoke during their earlier visit to the bar.On display on Carol's mantle at the end after she has found her grove again are pictures from her youth, her dead husband's ashes, Hazel's ashes, and one of Bill's cigars, not reduced to ashes. There are many more metaphors. If you look for them, you will find them.Don't feel sorry for Carol. Rather, rejoice in the happy fact that she has reexamined her life (think Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living"). In the end, Carol has examined her life and decided the route she wants to follow, her groove, is living with an old dog, not a man, and she enjoys watching TV and playing bridge with her friends. Do not be sad if her decision does not mirror yours. Just follow her lead and reexamine your own life, then live it the way you want, regardless of what others think you should do.Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers and Millennials probably will not understand the movie, but people facing retirement who have confronted old Mr. Death will definitely love it if they get the metaphors. Literalists who cannot accept Hazel the dog as a male will be lost from the opening scene.

So here is the thing, I am afraid this is the second review in succession I will make about a movie which content I cannot understand. Not that I did not get the conversations or the language, I just did not get what the intention of the movie was. So we have an old single lady who plays cards with a group of friends her age. She starts developing a friendship with the pool boy, she dates a guy who dies before it gets interesting, and she smokes a spliff with her retired girlfriends. So was the director trying to make a movie about love? If that's the case I saw very little of it. Was the movie about living a second life? If that's the case, then going on 2 dates with a guy and smoking pot is hardly considered wild partying in my books. Was the movie about friendship? Well, as I said the protagonist becomes friends with the pool boy. Maybe that's it! It's a movie about friendship. If that's the case, you will learn more about friendship having a drink with your mates than watching this utterly boring flick. Stay away or use it to get to sleep.