"While We're Young" is a sharp and interesting movie that accurately reflects our current lifestyle. It is not a movie about eternal youth, but about accepting the reality of getting old. This funny satire about aging hipsters and their dissatisfaction is Noah Baumbach's best work we can expect. It embodies Baumbach's unabashed true feelings and his perfect listening to contemporary conversations. The film, like all top satirists, cleverly mocks everyone's conceit and blind spots. The audience will inevitably realize that we may be any of these characters at different times in our lives. The film keenly tells the process of getting old, growing and assuming responsibility
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2022-05-24 10:05
Extended Reading
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Leslie Breitbart: Now, people have criticized me and some of my colleagues, saying that we were pretending to be objective when there is no objectivity. Okay, we were trying to capture truth, but the truth of experience.
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Leslie Breitbart: What we were trying to say as filmmakers is that what we were filming was more interesting than we were. We weren't trying to be objective.
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Leslie Breitbart: We were trying to be open and to learn from the people we were filming.
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Leslie Breitbart: We saw truth not through telling you what we thought, but through a different ethical approach to filmmaking that allowed the world to reveal itself to us.
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Leslie Breitbart: What else can I tell you? After all these years, I still don't have all the answers. And for the sake of documentary cinema, I intend to leave it that way.
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Josh: I do know that documentaries are over.
Jamie: Are you kidding? It's what everyone is doing.
Josh: His documentaries are over. What you're doing is something else. If everyone is filming everything, what's a documentary anymore? It has no meaning, it's just some shit you recorded! Is that old man talk? Maybe it is. You kids have been told you can do anything. You think everything is out there for you to have. It's not.
Jamie: Nobody owns anything. If I hear a song I like, or a story, it's mine. It's mine to use. It's everybody's.
Josh: No, it isn't! That's not sharing, Jamie, that's stealing.
Jamie: That's old man talk.
Josh: I am an old man!