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It’s really... odd that I’m going to be able to just check in on how he’s doing in 63 Up.
This is a unique and very well-done take on Seven Up. It has the added dimension of how much of a learning process this was for Apted (the director), as well as other aspects that I hadn't picked up from other sources. I first discovered this series a few weeks ago. I found the idea fascinating and I expected to be keen to dig into it. So I read some of the pieces that I found online and I stopped. My expectation of…
It's a great show, but to expect people to arrive at healthy/positive conclusions by themselves isn't realistic. There is too much information presented.
It's sort of like handing Copernicus, Brahe and Keplers observations of decades worth of planetary motion to everyone and expecting people to work out Keplers Laws and Gravity by themselves. Not going to happen. It requires a whole lot of deep cognition for decades to make meaning out of all that data and that too if you are surrounded by the right people.
So whatever it is stirring in you, know that this is the age of knowledge, and use such programmes as jumping off points to go look for the best teachers to process things. It's easy to find them these days and there are so many out there.
14 Up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_YY7xxyp_M
21 Up (Part 1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=391ljmNeLMQ
21 Up (Part 2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Hr1rO8ncA
28 Up (Part 1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyra0MgJ-Xs
28 Up (Part 2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvk0Zd9Q9k
These are the only videos in the series that I can find, but it seems that at least the first video in the series (7-Up itself) is missing. If anyone can find a link to that, I would be grateful.
Get frustrated with the Times a lot with their tech bashing and political homomgeneity but pieces like this are worth the price of a year's subscription alone. Wonderfully written and a clear subtle mirroring of Apsted's biography using the framing device of his series.
Anyone interested in this would probably enjoy the 7-Up in the Soviet Union series titled "Born in the USSR", which provides a fascinating contrast to the UK series along with a glimpse in to a world that has since been transformed almost beyond recognition. 14 Up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_YY7xxyp_M 21 Up (Part 1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=391ljmNeLMQ 21 Up (Part 2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My first born cured me of childish ways.
My experience with having kids was that it taught me that adults/parents are mostly getting through life by guessing. You don't figure life out at some point, you just pick up small things along the way and get better at rolling with the ups-and-downs.