The Last Farm: An Oscar Nominated Short Film

This was about the tragedy of aging in a soci­ety that fears it. Instead of hon­or­ing old peo­ple, this soci­ety puts “old peo­ple” away, won’t let them just be. I don’t blame him for commt­ti­ing sui­cide, because he knew that his life was threat­ened by those who would take him away from his farm, and away from his dead wife. I won­der what would hap­pen if nurs­ing homes were ille­gal, and instead, ser­vices deliv­ered to the elder­ly where they live. A very sad film. Nobody helped him.

love is beat­i­ful

excel­lent! it real­ly grabbed my atten­tion from the begin­ning. Trul­ly sad and real

The demise of his beloved spouse and com­pan­ion of many years left the old man griev­ing and alone in the mid­dle of nowhere. He lacked sup­port or under­stand­ing from his some­what estranged daugh­ter, who lived with her fam­i­ly far off (most like­ly in a city) and would not live with him on the farm, nei­ther would she look after him if he no longer could. Although tied to his land and inde­pen­dent thus far, he faced the grim prospect of being sent away to a dis­tant nurs­ing home full of strangers instead. The win­ter was approach­ing fast. He must have felt like hav­ing lost the mean­ing of his life, or he abhorred what his life’s con­tin­u­a­tion would like­ly look and feel like, thus he decid­ed to fol­low his wife. It is a mov­ing and sad­den­ing and raw depic­tion of one man’s end of life that is ugly, and yet roman­tic and (for that man) inevitable under giv­en cir­cum­stances.