Levana, Marion, Cherniak and Maasin, for example

Through three characters and gerontologist, this documentary tries to analyze the source of our attitudes toward “old age”.Through his interactions with each of the three characters, Dr. Marion Rabinovich comes to question the prejudices about “aging” and “old age”, as well as stereotyped attitudes about “youth” and “old age”. Levana Hakim, a young filmmaker, is in the midst of a quest for a career and success; she asks: Can a human being prepare himself for old age, and if so, how? Acraham Cherniak sees time as a human invention that brings with it the idea of death. Despite his age, 86, Cherniak is active as an architect, painter, and poet, and sees only “life”. In opposition to this mystical concept is Yaacov Ma’azin who expresses total despair. Ma’azins’s pessimism comes from the religious schools where he was educated. These schools see the world as a stepping stone to the other world, which negates the value of life in this world and doesn’t prepare children for life. In the end, Dr. Rabinovich comes up with an alternative method of treatment that views an older person as a relative concept not as an absolute.Traditional stereotypes of “old age” have been avoided, such as hospitals and old age homes that make you feel pity. Atypical music and expressive camerawork, intuitive editing that is led by emotion, and an anti-didactive approach are used here because the filmmakers wanted the viewer to be actively involved both emotionally and intellectually