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yesterday i was looking for new “storm chasers” episodes when i noticed the pirate bay promoting a film called “nasty old people“. at first i thought it would be another major movie release and i didn’t want to get caught in a wake of people being sued because they downloaded something illegally. i skimmed the summary on the pirate bay website until i noticed the creative commons tag and i thought “oh well, let’s give it a try”.

so, what is it about?

This is the story of Mette

Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and in company with the her crazy oldies she longs for respect and love. She can tell that the old folks are marginalized by the modern society, but together they create a world and a voice of their own.

today i was watching the bluray of “australia” (which i didn’t like) which i stopped about midway and noticed that the download of nasty old people was finished. then i thought i should give it a try and watched the whole movie in one sitting, not even getting up for popcorn. something that really made me stick to my seat was the feeling of watching something real to unfold, bit by bit. the characters are extremely well drawn and about as scary or weird as my mom mentions every now and then (since she is in some kind of home help service herself). some of the transitions between events are shown as stop motion paper-cutout sequences which work very well combined with the lovely music in the background.

without spoiling the ending sequence i think it brought the movie to a nice close.

hanna, thanks a lot for sharing this movie with us!
i am sure to donate and  i am very much looking forward to seeing another movie from you again!

links:

http://nastyoldpeople.blogspot.com/

http://thepiratebay.org/user/TangramFilm/0/5