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De retour dans son village avec ses deux enfants pour le mariage de sa sœur, une femme doit défendre sa famille contre des personnes âgées prises d'une folie meurtrière. (Netflix)
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Techniquement, les Old People sont à un niveau d'artisanat décent. Le début, culminant dans une scène où l'actrice principale se rend compte de ce qui se passe, est un délicieux aperçu d'un film d'horreur intense. Cependant, l'idée bizarre de retraités meurtriers sur laquelle repose tout le film est stupide. Les créateurs n'ont pas réussi à en faire une allégorie sociale et sont restés sur une optique mentale exploitant purement le genre de film d'horreur zombie. Ce qui rend le film ambigu et même risible.
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The social-critical aspect is extremely banal and literal, yet if the script had dug into it a bit more and at the same time not shoved it in the viewer's face, it could have had some potential (but then it should have also addressed the frequent contempt of the old for the young, etc., so that it is not so black and white). At the same time, I must admit that the director has the horror craft down pat, the night horror sequences are properly creepy and intense. In the stronger passages it reaches for four stars, in the weaker passages, when we watch a family melodrama or the main young heroine tells us in a voiceover that it is wrong to be mean to old people, oh yes, more like two.
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The scenes of the filthy and disgusting old men are surprisingly good, even disgusting in places, and their casting is equally top notch, but the rest of it is just awful. The story and the main characters are a disaster and expecting a deeper script would be a mistake. The very idea of old people getting the crap kicked out of them by families who haven't stopped by the retirement home for a couple of years only to soften up at the end over some sort of "family bonding spell" is totally hokey, actually, as is the film as a whole. I haven't been so amused by how stupid a film can be in a long time.
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