Hello, everybody, welcome to my channel. Today I am going to recap and explain a weird thriller
movie called Old. This movie is messy, weird, illogical and bizarre, yet it was commercially
successful. It has a rating of 5.9 on IMDB and 50% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Well, it's
debatable. In the beginning, we see The Capa family in a van, this place seems to be an
island. They were heading for the Anamika resort in the resort's van. Anamika is a Sanskrit
word meaning anonymous. Here we see a couple, Guy and Prisca, their kids, Maddox and Trent.
The resort manager welcomes these guys, an employee Madrid offers a special cocktail
for adults based on their food and beverage choices they have selected when they booked
the rooms. After settling into their rooms, Trent and Maddox meet a young boy named Idlib.
Trent and Idlib became friends, the resort manager was Idlib's uncle. At their room,
Guy finds a leaflet belonging to one pharmaceutical company named Warren and Warren who had an
association with this resort. Guy knew this giant company as he was working for an insurance
company which recommended the Warren's company medication. During the day Idlib and Trent
do activities of asking resort patrons what their names and jobs are. Here they meet a
cop. The Capa family enjoys their first day here. At night Idlib sends a cryptogram letter
to Trent to decipher messages. Here every alphabet was represented by an image. Just
then Guy and Prisca start arguing as they have decided to get divorced. This was just
one last trip they wanted to give the kids before they separated. Prisca here had a small
tumor.Next morning we see a girl and her boyfriend at an empty beach early at dawn. The girl
here goes for a swim by being naked. Back at the resort, we see another family. A doctor,
Charles, his wife Chrystal, his mom Agnes and his daughter Kara. Chrystal here was suffering
from hypoclacemia, the deficiency of calcium and was skinny. Just then, nearby, a woman
named Patricia falls down with an epileptic seizure. Charles here helps her with her nurse
husband, Jarin. Later the resort manager informs Patricia and Guy about a private, once-in-a-lifetime
experience beach where kids can hang out more freely. It looked exciting to Petricia, hence
she agreed. Trent also spots Idlib, as they made plans to hang out again this day, but
the resort manager takes him away from here.Now the Kapa and Charles family all board a van,
here the van driver is this film's director. Mr M Night Shyamalan. He takes these guys
to that private beach where it is clearly mentioned that entry is prohibited. He drops
them near the site and gives them a lot of food. This trip was organized by the resort,
hence everything was free. Guy even suspected the quantity of food here as it was too much
for a day trip. Shyamalan ducks it by saying kids need more food. These guys move through
a narrow way in huge rock structures. After arriving at the beach, kids started playing
while adults were lying on the beach.Here, Maddox recognizes a rapper, Mid-Size Sedan,
who we saw at the dawn with that girl. Mid-sized Sedan is a stupid name for a rapper, why not
full-sized Audi ? Well, I guess this is what product placement looks like. Anyway, the
kids start feeling hungry, they start grabbing food as if there was no tomorrow. The girls
find old dolls, rusted spoons and other items buried in the sand. Trent was swimming near
the cave when suddenly the body of Brendan’s girlfriend's body floated towards him. In
panic he shouted and informed his mom, Prisca. Apparently, that girl had drowned. The adults
examine the body while Brendan is suffering from nosebleeds and is equally stunned at
the discovery. Charles here suspects that Brendan has done something to her. Brandan
pleads his innocence and says she only went for a swim and never came back. Not long after
this, Petricia and Jarin arrive at this beach. Petricia was scared seeing a dead body there.
Just then Crystal came crying as Agnes was breathing heavily. As Charles was checking
her, she died in front of him. Jarin checked his mobile, there was no network. He starts
to walk back through that narrow path through the rocks. As soon as he reached the edge,
he felt immense head pain, he blacked out, his legs started moving backwards, and finally
he collapsed on the beach. Perticia and the rest were shocked as they didn't understand
why Jarin couldn't walk that way. The kids also start to experience something weird.
They were still eating. Trent points at the edge of one hill where something was shining.
Later, Trent and Maddox ask Jarin and Petricia their name and occupation. Jarin tells them
that, and he starts to guess Trent's age. He puts it at around 11 or 12. To which Maddox
says, you are wrong, he is just six. Here Patricia and Guy were shell shocked when
they saw their kids. Somehow Trent and Maddox have grown old, their biological age seemed
to be 11 and 14. Even though they were six and nine just a couple of hours ago. Suddenly,
they have grown, become old. Kara has become old too, Charles puts her biological age at
11, but her sixth birthday was two days ago. Brandan was horrified seeing all this, he
tried to run away from this, Charles followed him in that cave, but both blacked out. Petricia
and Guy were nervous, they thought the kids were infected with a virus or something. They
suggested the idea of trying different ways to get out of this beach. Everyone makes a
group of two to find alternative ways out of this beach, but each time, ever one blacked
out. It seemed these guys were stuck here. here Charles dog also dies suddenly.After
a few minutes we see Charles behaving irrationally, he suddenly attacked Brendan with the knife
on his face. Brendan started bleeding, but the strange thing here was his wound healed
itself in less than a minute. Everybody was shocked, Charles says sorry to Brendan saying
I don't know why I attacked you. Charles was certainly showing the symptoms of mental health
issues. Brandan explains to the rest that the girl he was with had multiple sclerosis.
While he has hemophilia, which is why he had constant nosebleeds. Just when the adults
were talking about what to do, Prisca collapsed. Her three-centimeter tumor had grown to the
size of a cantaloupe. Jarin begs Charles to remove that tumor, where Guy hesitantly gives
his consent. As soon as Charles makes an insertion, it heals. hence next time Chages makes an
incersion, puts his hand and removes the tumor. During this whole process he kept on asking
for a film name in which Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando were both there. Well, it's
1976's Missouri Breaks. Meaning, Charles’ mental health was getting worse. Not long
after, Brendan finds that the body of his girlfriend has now fully decomposed to nothing
but bones within hours. This makes adults realize that the time on this beach is off.
Because for an exposed body to decompose it generally takes seven years, but here it happened
in a couple of hours. Jaren says that something must be emitting from minerals imbedded in
these rocks which is triggering our cells to age. That's why kids are eating like hell,
they need more calories to grow. That's why Agnes and the dog died quickly as their life
span was short. We all are getting blacked out because our body is not adjusting to a
new environment quickly. He says it's like coming out of a deep, pressure-water ocean
too fast, the body can't adjust. Strangely, nobody's hair and nails were growing here.
Jaren’s logic was they were dead cells. Prisca puts out a rough calculation based
on the decomposing body that one hour on this beach is equal to two years. 24 hours is nearly
fifty years. A life time.So this is the premise of the film. These guys are on the beach were
cells in a living body age rapidly. Since ageing is rapid, healing is also rapid. Hence,
no one was bleeding. We have to keep the logic and biology at least two miles away from our
brains to make some sense. One minute is equal to 12 days, everybody should have died within
the first minute. As no average human body can live without water for more than three
days. During these first three hours on the beach, adults don't eat much food, yet they
age. Their ageing was not that visible. Which is total nonsense, three hours is equal to
six years. If you don't eat anything for that long, you must be dead. Apparently, rapid
fat and muscle loss is not happening here. I guess the rocky minerals are also emitting
invisible cabohydrates, proteins, minerals and water to sustain a human body at this
rate, just can't see it. L O L. Why I am telling this joke is because this plot-hole will prove
crucial at the end. One more thing, don't ask me about the bowl movement of any of these
guys, I certainly don't know. As adults were discussing all this, Trent
and Kara were age-up even more. Their raging hormones caused an intimacy between them,
and Kara somehow became five months pregnant within a matter of minutes. These were mentally
not mature, hence they didn't know what they were doing. The adults prepare themselves
for the birth, which happens rather quickly, but the baby dies after a minute due to lack
of attention. Remember, one minute here is equal to 12 normal days. Kara, Trent and Chrystal
were devastated by all these sudden events, she tries again to move out but fails. The
other adults start to show more visible signs of aging. Charles starts to lose his mind
to schizophrenia, he stabs Brendan to death with his knife. Here we see a quick glance
at the hill top where somebody was watching these guys. Jarin takes Charle's knife from
him while trying to come up with an alternate plan of escape. Knowing they can’t go through
the rocks, Jarin attempts to swim to find a way out. Guy suggests the idea of climbing
the rocks, but Prisca stops him, saying it's risky. These two were getting closer and forgetting
their difference. Apparently, Prisca had an affair and Guy knew about it. She explains
her divorce and affair to Maddox who takes it very hard. She was not expecting this from
her mom. Later we see Jarin's dead body washing away at the shore as he too failed to cross
this rock mineral's field. Kara and Trent bury their baby ashes as it decomposed quickly.
Kara couldn't handle this tragedy, she started to climb the rock mountain. Trent tried his
best to stop her, but she moved ahead. When she reached near the top, she blacked out
too. She falls to the ground and dies. Petricia was planning something to swim her way out,
but suddenly she had a seizure. She dies because of it. Crystal was weak due to her calcium
deficiency. Her condition was worsening. She was madly searching for Kara as she didn't
know she died. This food emitting mineral rock was not emitting Calcium, I guess. L
O L. It was almost the evening at the beach where Guy was losing his eyesight, and Prisca
was losing her hearing. Seeing their imminent death, both of these guys bury their difference
and accept their faults and patch up. Trent and Maddox come across a notebook left by
a previous visitor, he had written about this place field and a way to get out of it. According
to him, a full-body metal tube can block the invisible radiation, but the problem was there
was none. He has also written the names, address and medical conditions of people with him.
Trent and Maddox noticed some people at the same hill top, they thought resort guys were
observing them.After some time, Charles starts attacking Guy with a knife as he was hallucinating.
His schizophrenia was out of control. Prisca in panic asks kids to hide in a cave where
she brings a rusty knife. She attacks Charles with that. The rust here acts like a rapid
infection, it spreads through Charle's body, and he dies too. Prisca says sorrow to Charles
body as she did it to protect her family. While fully knowing well that she and Guy
will die tonight. She wanted to spend her last moments with her family. Trent and Maddox
are attacked by Chrystal when they were hiding in the cave. Her body was weak, twisted at
many angles. For a lady who was obsessed with looks, it was too much. She dies while stopping
Trent and Maddox from seeing her like that. As the Capa family gather around the campfire,
Guy admits to Prisca that he still loves her. He dies in peace. Prisca then stands up and
walks into the ocean, symbolising she has accepted her fate in peace.The next morning
Trent and Maddox were in their 50's, waiting and thinking about their life. Knowing death
is certain, they try to enjoy the moment by building a sandcastle. The sandcastle here
has two meanings. One is. Life is like a sand castle, its value and beauty lasts up until
the next wave of death. Second, this film is inspired by the French graphic novel named
Sandcastle. During this, Trent brings up a code that Idlib gave him yesterday night which
he had not cracked. He deciphers it now, which turns out to be “My uncle doesn’t like
the coral”. Suddenly, Trents thinks this must be a reference to a near-by spot full
of a coral reef. Idlib's uncle was the resort manager. Idlib might not know exactly what
it is, but he sure knew that his uncle was scared of it. I guess here lies another plot
hole. We know that this beach affects mental health, then how come Trent has even remembered
Idlib in the last 44 years? How can a 50-year-old remember their six-year-old friend? Why is
there no memory loss? OK, lets just assume their memory is super strong. Trent suggests
that the coral reef might do the job of a metal tube, hence these two swim out there.
During their underwater swimming, Maddox’s clothing gets stuck on the coral. When these
two don’t resurface, the van driver that is Shyamalan, who brought these families to
the beach, reports to his bosses that all members of Trial 73 have died.Later it is
revealed that the resort is a front for illegal medical research founded by pharma company
Warren and Warren. It lured people with medical conditions with cheap vacation, a cheap private
charted plane, free food and rest. These guys were performing clinical trials for life-saving
drugs, given to the subjects in the form of cocktails. They served it upon arriving. They
found the beach aging process, they were conducting trials for a day which turned out to be 50
years. Here one scientist, Sidney, says they have cured Patricia’s epilepsy since she
didn’t have a seizure for eight hours, which is equivalent to about 16 years on the beach.
Which I believe is nonsense. Scientifically speaking, all subjects must die within five
minutes on that beach. They have never had normal food, water and bowl movement for many
years, so data is useless. This is the stupidest method of drug trails.As the resort manager
and others were trying to lure their latest victims, Trent and Maddox, who managed to
free themselves from the coral, arrived there and stopped them. Trent hands over that dairy
to that cop whom he asked his occupation when he was six years old. Idlib comes out and
recognizes Trent and Maddox. Trent and Maddox reveal the truth to everyone. Apprently, they
swam through the coral reef which acted like a metal tube or something which gave their
body time to adjust. How coral reef can do that is not mentioned, they just do.The cop
and police verified that dairy and arrested all the resort employees. The officer takes
Trent and Maddox to be with their aunt, who is younger than these two. With this, the
film ends. So this is the story of the most messed-up movie.Let's talk about the plot
holes. At the dawn Mid-Sized Sedan's girlfriend went for a swim. The Capa and the Charles
family arrived at the beach at least three hours after dawn, that means at least six
years late. Her body decomposed after arriving at the shore. So how long was her body floating?
If it's one hour, then it's two years old. Even if it is ten minutes earlier, then it
is also four months old. Upon reaching the shore, it should have some sign of decomposing.
But the body was pristine. This is wrong. If somebody asks me how come dead cells decomposed
that fast, as rocks field don't affect human dead cells? Then the answer is field doesn't
affect the dead cells, but it surely affects living microorganism that help in decomposing.
I guess micro-organism's birth and death were rapid. Only thing the movie suggests here
is we must respect time, time is all powerful. We are all like a sand castle where we could
wash away anytime. We must respect our relationship, friendship and must be happy all the time.
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