I have watched the whole series and it is an amazing experience to watch someone's whole life. Most people will never see lives of people of different class, here you can see orphans, working class, privileged.
You can see how society works and how rich people stay rich and poor people stay poor. If you're poor and work really, really hard then maybe you'll become middle-class if you're lucky. If you're rich it really doesn't matter what you do, you'll be fine.
The more interesting discussion would be with what to do about that. So far I haven't seen society was able to solve that (and should it?).
E.g. Communism tried to solve the problem, but failed miserably, not only not resolving the problem, but also became a good excuse for imperialistic land capture.
The closest to the fix came the countries top of the "Social Mobility Index", what we can learn from them?
The same director (Helena Trestikova) did similar documentaries following specific individuals, often from the edge of the society (e.g. junkies, criminals).
We have seen the whole series, half of them as they were released and I'm devastated that Michael Apted passed away, I hope one of the team is able to do 70 Up. Very few things on screen have made me feel what the Up Series does, Boyhood did. There are many other versions, including in the UK, but none span an era of such huge changes in society - although, hold my drink, who knows what the future holds.
Peter getting smeared in the press and losing his job because of frank (and not even uncommon or spicy by today's standards) criticism of Margret Thatcher to go back to school and become a lawyer was special. Also that first interview with Paul's wife who shamed the director and whole production was certainly something.
> Researcher Michael Apted interviewed the children for the first film, and was struck by how Britain's class system seemed to have shaped them, even at that age: "It was very funny, the original [film], but it was also alarming," Apted told CBS News' Lee Cowan. "You could see that people's views of the world were totally determined by where they were coming from. And those who had somewhat impoverished backgrounds had a very narrow view of the world. And those who were in power had this grand view, not just of the world, but of their lives."
I've only seen the first four episodes, but they are fantastic. It is incredible how from ages 7 to 14 to 21 to 28 some individuals seem to barely change at all, whereas others appear to be a completely different person in each episode.
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You can see how society works and how rich people stay rich and poor people stay poor. If you're poor and work really, really hard then maybe you'll become middle-class if you're lucky. If you're rich it really doesn't matter what you do, you'll be fine.
E.g. Communism tried to solve the problem, but failed miserably, not only not resolving the problem, but also became a good excuse for imperialistic land capture.
The closest to the fix came the countries top of the "Social Mobility Index", what we can learn from them?
https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index...
Shh, you'll wake the techno-libertarians.
- Ron Swanson (not sure if his character was a techno-libertarian, but certainly a libertarian)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206923/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1070622/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14895098/
The same director (Helena Trestikova) did similar documentaries following specific individuals, often from the edge of the society (e.g. junkies, criminals).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA0eUaRiMk
> Researcher Michael Apted interviewed the children for the first film, and was struck by how Britain's class system seemed to have shaped them, even at that age: "It was very funny, the original [film], but it was also alarming," Apted told CBS News' Lee Cowan. "You could see that people's views of the world were totally determined by where they were coming from. And those who had somewhat impoverished backgrounds had a very narrow view of the world. And those who were in power had this grand view, not just of the world, but of their lives."