With an inspiring and intriguing concept, writer/director Lucas Vasconcelos makes of this short film something very interesting, filled with reflections and some
mystery along the way. "Nothing Good Happens After 30's" not only is a questioning about reaching the age of 30, a very complicated moment to most people's lives where
you're either stuck with some youth idealism or are trapped into some sort of establishment that will define the remainder of your life, but it also deals with themes of
embracing a young mortality as a way to preserve life on Earth. Crazy? Yes, but the filmmaker makes his point with valid criticisms.
Noah (Pedro Nercessian) is a young man who's about to turn the age 30 which in the future will work as an expiration date to humans to the problem of overpopulation.
Every person when reaching 30 years-old will have to die, and thanks to a certain device attached on their wrist death is certain. As benefits, besides leaving Earth as a place worth living for everybody, to those who are about to die young they are granted promises of a better future somewhere else, and that promise usually makes people celebrate with great enthusiasm the fact they'll die - except for Noah since he's skeptic about the so-called great promising future of which no one knows exactly what it is, but also because he's not that comfortable about dying (who is anyway?). What if there's more stuff to live, learn and know after the 30's? What if I refuse such idea and stay a little longer? What will happen?
The mortality questioning is a immortal topic to any living person, so it's obvious that the movie will attract audiences since it tries to challenge viewers in questioning facts and reality itself. But if we consider the idea given, we wonder about why they picked such age and wonder as well about the rulers of the world, the political system of such future not being composed by older people or if so, they are exception to the rule. It's a little thin of ideas since such ideal would never be practical in several ways and I don't even need to explain why (but I understand why such idea was conceived since it's a reverse idea of growing old in a society that doesn't benefit elderly with many things and only pushes them to their final days).
On the more thoughtful level, it has plenty of valid questionings and it raises great insightful questions about life and death, past and future, and the choices we'd make if knowing about such fate of having to die at an early age - not gonna spoil the fun but there is a way to escape death in this system of life. The biggest challenge is in making a choice: to accept death knowing you will get some reward afterwards and leave something good behind or to find some ways to avoid death and see if there is life and ways of getting old and accomplish something else other than just waiting for the age limit?
It's a very interesting sci-fi drama, with great artistic values as it makes us think about limitless possibilities of seeing a different variation of life. A possible scenario happening in the future? Maybe...who knows? 8/10.
Noah (Pedro Nercessian) is a young man who's about to turn the age 30 which in the future will work as an expiration date to humans to the problem of overpopulation.
Every person when reaching 30 years-old will have to die, and thanks to a certain device attached on their wrist death is certain. As benefits, besides leaving Earth as a place worth living for everybody, to those who are about to die young they are granted promises of a better future somewhere else, and that promise usually makes people celebrate with great enthusiasm the fact they'll die - except for Noah since he's skeptic about the so-called great promising future of which no one knows exactly what it is, but also because he's not that comfortable about dying (who is anyway?). What if there's more stuff to live, learn and know after the 30's? What if I refuse such idea and stay a little longer? What will happen?
The mortality questioning is a immortal topic to any living person, so it's obvious that the movie will attract audiences since it tries to challenge viewers in questioning facts and reality itself. But if we consider the idea given, we wonder about why they picked such age and wonder as well about the rulers of the world, the political system of such future not being composed by older people or if so, they are exception to the rule. It's a little thin of ideas since such ideal would never be practical in several ways and I don't even need to explain why (but I understand why such idea was conceived since it's a reverse idea of growing old in a society that doesn't benefit elderly with many things and only pushes them to their final days).
On the more thoughtful level, it has plenty of valid questionings and it raises great insightful questions about life and death, past and future, and the choices we'd make if knowing about such fate of having to die at an early age - not gonna spoil the fun but there is a way to escape death in this system of life. The biggest challenge is in making a choice: to accept death knowing you will get some reward afterwards and leave something good behind or to find some ways to avoid death and see if there is life and ways of getting old and accomplish something else other than just waiting for the age limit?
It's a very interesting sci-fi drama, with great artistic values as it makes us think about limitless possibilities of seeing a different variation of life. A possible scenario happening in the future? Maybe...who knows? 8/10.
