Review of Old (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 21 Aug 2021

(Mauro Lanari).

Shyamalan had to stop being himself to make a decent movie. "Nihil sub sole novum" (Qohelet 1, 10), but at least images of accelerated decomposition resurface as not seen since the Greenaway of "A Zed & Two Noughts" (1985) or from the advertising launch of the Xbox in 2001-2 ("From birth to grave"). His end twist this time explains practically nothing and that's okay. The characters become progressively blurred (Allen, "Deconstructing Harry", 1997) and the director plays the role of the controller who with a telescope observes, himself the first spectator, what happens on the beach (Hitchcockian voyeurism). Welcome to the realm of the (so far) irreversibility of Chrόnos.