“If you want to kill me, you'd better hurry, because I'm 100 years old.”
I
long to travel the world and have experiences I could only dream about. I am a
curious person who loves history and learning about different cultures. I would
love to reminisce in my old age about the places I have been and the people I have
met and the fun things I did on my travels. I want a full life, well lived life
kind of like the main character in The
100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
Allan
Karlsson is one hundred years old. He lives in a nursing home. His life has
been filled living one adventure to the next rather by accident most of the
time. Allan does not want to be in the nursing home for his birthday so he
climbs out the window of his room and heads to a bus station. Since Allan is
not totally in right mind he gets confused along the way. At the station is a
young man who looks like he is up to absolutely no good. The guy wants to go to
the bathroom but his suitcase is too big to take into the small bathroom with
him. He has Allan hold it for him. Unfortunately for the guy Allan walks out of
the station onto a bus without even realizing he has the suitcase.
Allan
walks up to the house of an older man named Julius. Julius feeds Allan and they
drink for a little while. As they are eating and drinking Allan regales Julius with
some stories from his life such as the fact that he liked to blow things up
from the time he was very young and that his father was arrested in Russia for
endorsing contraception. The guy from the train station shows up looking for
the suitcase. Julius winds up knocking the guy out and he and Allan look in the
suitcase. The suitcase is full of thousands of dollars. Julius had placed the
guy in his freezer but forgot to turn the cold air off and the guy winds up
freezing to death.
After
this incident Allan, Julius, and others they pick up along the way are brought
into a big adventure of running away from drug dealers and almost being killed
by them. Throughout the present story, stories and adventures from Allan’s past
are woven and you can see why he did not want to celebrate his one hundredth
birthday in a stuffy old nursing home.
The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the
Window and Disappeared was a good
movie. The length was a little too long for me and there were parts that
definitely dragged but for the most part it was enjoyable. The story reminded
me of Big Fish and Amelie in certain ways. All three movies
tell the stories of people who led interesting, adventure filled lives in so
many ways, real or imagined. I would love to be like Allan who had this
insanely long adventurous life and was ready for more at one hundred. Besides
the length and the fact that it flip flops between Swedish and English which to
me interrupts the flow and storytelling a bit, The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is
a movie a recommend seeing if you can find it.
If you're interested I made a video for this movie over on my YouTube channel which was a viewer request. If you guys have any suggestions of what I should watch for my channel (it can be any kind of movie new or old) please let me know either through my email or twitter which are listed on the sidebar.
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