[FairfieldLife] Movie review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
This film may find a resonance with many here, for several reasons. First, we FFLers are not the youngest critters on the planet, and this film is full of old people -- Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, etc. -- with nary a nubile, brainless, perfect-bodied twenty-something-year-old in sight. Second, it's set in India, and in an India that has not lost its sense of humor. The plot is simple. Several recent retirees in England discover that their savings really aren't going to go very far there, and certainly not while providing them with the decent quality of life they had looked forward to. So they all -- separately, because they don't know each other -- fall for a brochure Photoshopped by a young Indian guy to make it look as if his ramshackle family hotel is nicer and better maintained than it really is, and thus advertise it to old people in an attempt to outsource retirement. And the result is charming. Anyone who has had to put up with TM course accommodations being not quite up to snuff will identify with these people's misadventures. The actors are all wonderful, and clearly enjoying having a vehicle designed for someone their age, and one that allows them not only to act, but to act young at heart. Because inside every old person there is a young person, if only they allow it to come out. Sometimes being in a challenging situation encourages this coming out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w
Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Sounds like a good one. I had basicly the same idea, move to India and live like a king on my pension. However, after returning to India around '96, I thought, FTS! The difference between my visit in '73 and '96 was the remnant of the British Empire, relatively clean and orderly, to 3x's the population, horrible pollution and general filth. No place to be in a medical emergency. Maybe, a nice place to visit, but definately not a place to live out the rest of your life, unless you don't mind it being shortened. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Movie review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel This film may find a resonance with many here, for several reasons. First, we FFLers are not the youngest critters on the planet, and this film is full of old people -- Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, etc. -- with nary a nubile, brainless, perfect-bodied twenty-something-year-old in sight. Second, it's set in India, and in an India that has not lost its sense of humor. The plot is simple. Several recent retirees in England discover that their savings really aren't going to go very far there, and certainly not while providing them with the decent quality of life they had looked forward to. So they all -- separately, because they don't know each other -- fall for a brochure Photoshopped by a young Indian guy to make it look as if his ramshackle family hotel is nicer and better maintained than it really is, and thus advertise it to old people in an attempt to outsource retirement. And the result is charming. Anyone who has had to put up with TM course accommodations being not quite up to snuff will identify with these people's misadventures. The actors are all wonderful, and clearly enjoying having a vehicle designed for someone their age, and one that allows them not only to act, but to act young at heart. Because inside every old person there is a young person, if only they allow it to come out. Sometimes being in a challenging situation encourages this coming out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w
Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Yup, when I visited in 96 it looked like the Brits left and the Indians didn't know how to keep things up. But my understanding that is different now. And no your pension wouldn't go so far in today's India. I often pick up a copy of the free magazine India Currents at an Indian grocery nearby and there are often articles written by Indians who did well in the US (often as engineers) and decide to return to India to live cheaply on their savings. They find out it isn't so anymore. And there are new developments and so forth that are just as modern as the US if not better. The US will soon look like the India you visited in 1996. On 04/22/2012 11:14 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: Sounds like a good one. I had basicly the same idea, move to India and live like a king on my pension. However, after returning to India around '96, I thought, FTS! The difference between my visit in '73 and '96 was the remnant of the British Empire, relatively clean and orderly, to 3x's the population, horrible pollution and general filth. No place to be in a medical emergency. Maybe, a nice place to visit, but definately not a place to live out the rest of your life, unless you don't mind it being shortened. From: turquoisebno_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Movie review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel This film may find a resonance with many here, for several reasons. First, we FFLers are not the youngest critters on the planet, and this film is full of old people -- Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, etc. -- with nary a nubile, brainless, perfect-bodied twenty-something-year-old in sight. Second, it's set in India, and in an India that has not lost its sense of humor. The plot is simple. Several recent retirees in England discover that their savings really aren't going to go very far there, and certainly not while providing them with the decent quality of life they had looked forward to. So they all -- separately, because they don't know each other -- fall for a brochure Photoshopped by a young Indian guy to make it look as if his ramshackle family hotel is nicer and better maintained than it really is, and thus advertise it to old people in an attempt to outsource retirement. And the result is charming. Anyone who has had to put up with TM course accommodations being not quite up to snuff will identify with these people's misadventures. The actors are all wonderful, and clearly enjoying having a vehicle designed for someone their age, and one that allows them not only to act, but to act young at heart. Because inside every old person there is a young person, if only they allow it to come out. Sometimes being in a challenging situation encourages this coming out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w
Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
On 04/22/2012 08:53 AM, turquoiseb wrote: This film may find a resonance with many here, for several reasons. First, we FFLers are not the youngest critters on the planet, and this film is full of old people -- Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, etc. -- with nary a nubile, brainless, perfect-bodied twenty-something-year-old in sight. Second, it's set in India, and in an India that has not lost its sense of humor. The plot is simple. Several recent retirees in England discover that their savings really aren't going to go very far there, and certainly not while providing them with the decent quality of life they had looked forward to. So they all -- separately, because they don't know each other -- fall for a brochure Photoshopped by a young Indian guy to make it look as if his ramshackle family hotel is nicer and better maintained than it really is, and thus advertise it to old people in an attempt to outsource retirement. And the result is charming. Anyone who has had to put up with TM course accommodations being not quite up to snuff will identify with these people's misadventures. The actors are all wonderful, and clearly enjoying having a vehicle designed for someone their age, and one that allows them not only to act, but to act young at heart. Because inside every old person there is a young person, if only they allow it to come out. Sometimes being in a challenging situation encourages this coming out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w Bollywood excels in the area of comedy and thrillers. They've got some great comedians. My guru's guru was going to retire at a new development near Hardwar 10 years ago invited my guru and myself to live there too. A house would have been $5K. Probably not so now. But if I were to live in India I would prefer Kerala where the temps are 87 degrees year round and the state is very modern with thriving modern businesses. And it is a communist run state so let Willy go figure that one. I've got videos of playing chicken on the highway during my 1996 visit. I'm going to take some of that footage and post it to YouTube. Unfortunately I didn't like the footage I took yesterday for my video so shot some more this morning and hope to have an Earth Day video up today though a birthday bash this evening may derail that.
