Film · 20th Century · 1985
Pass it on
Cocoon
43Leave it.
Gentle about old age, and too fond of leaving Earth so you don't die.
Take controlThis scores 43. Cocoon cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Old friends in a Florida home sneak into a pool full of alien cocoons and come out feeling young. A boy and a grandfather keep it from being only a gag about age. Then someone offers them a ride off Earth so they don't have to die. Some take it. The film is gentle with old bodies. It gets sentimental about the exit, as if not dying were automatically love.
I'd watch it beside the older people in the house, and I'd talk back to the ending. Youth from a pool they weren't invited into is already a strange loan. Leaving the planet spends the people who stay. The boy is standing inside that cost. Enjoy the affection between them. Don't nod along as if the kind choice is the one that skips a death.
Journal
Keep Cocoon in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Matrix
55 instead of 43
The Matrix is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 55 instead of 43. What you gain is industry: There is a skill to learn and a training that hurts.
The eight
- 2Industry
They are retired; the only labor in the plot is sneaking into a pool.
- 7Household
Old friends, a boy, and a grandfather make age a family fact, not a costume.
- 4Piety
The offer to skip death is a real temptation, and the film is tender toward yes.
- 6Courage
Leaving Earth means leaving the boy and the place that would still be here.
- 3Republic
A rest home and a pool, not a town; the duty on screen is mostly to kin.
- 3Temperance
They take the borrowed youth, and some take a life that does not have to end.
- 5Truth
The youth is real in the pool and false as a condition they can keep on land.
- 4Stewardship
Some go, so the boy may be left with a departure instead of more years.
Where to watch
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