Well, the filming is going well at least. It’s a cinema-verite-style documentary about how elderly relatives often get unintentionally frozen out of young families in our glorious western culture. I spent a couple of hours filming my mother the other day eating a lonely microwave dinner, all the time skirting around the issue that she does, quite commonly in fact, sit on her own and eat a lonely microwave dinner. I am the victim of my own insightful cinematography.
In other news I woke up this morning to find that I’d been given a parking ticket for parking outside my house. Apparantly I was parked next to a dropped curb or something. There’s £50 I won’t see again. It seems that Croydon council are getting desperate – just over two months till april and they need to pay the bills. Glad to be of service Croydon.
Will try and work out some way of posting the finished film to this blog when it’s, y’know, finished.
Yay! I think our social structures sometimes make it hard to determine if the older members of our families should be staying on their own and have independence and a sense of self-reliance -or- if they should be staying with us, where they’d get loads of daily personal interaction that they may not get in their own place, especially if they’ve lost their partner.
Latin American immigrants in the US almost always have a huge extended family living situation. Unmarried children will often live with the parents even after they are adults, families will have their parents or grandparents living with them as they can be very helpful once there are grandchildren in the house. I fear American living will erode that value for them over time, though.
By: angelchrome on February 18, 2009
at 2:20 pm
So then what happened?! if you want people to read, keep up to date!
Hope all went well with the rest of the filmic experience. Best, a
By: Anthony on March 25, 2009
at 9:09 pm