{"id":510229,"date":"2022-11-15T17:13:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-much-ado-about-dying-review-a-candidly-personal-eldercare-portrait\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:13:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:13:36","slug":"watch-much-ado-about-dying-review-a-candidly-personal-eldercare-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-much-ado-about-dying-review-a-candidly-personal-eldercare-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Much Ado About Dying&#8217; Review: A Candidly Personal Eldercare Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37197497e76\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37197497e76\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-much-ado-about-dying-review-a-candidly-personal-eldercare-portrait\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Much_Ado_About_Dying_Review_A_Candidly_Personal_Eldercare_Portrait%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Much Ado About Dying&#8217; Review: A Candidly Personal Eldercare Portrait&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-much-ado-about-dying-review-a-candidly-personal-eldercare-portrait\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Much_Ado_About_Dying_Review_A_Candidly_Personal_Eldercare_Portrait%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Much Ado About Dying&#8217; Review: A Candidly Personal Eldercare Portrait&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Much_Ado_About_Dying_Review_A_Candidly_Personal_Eldercare_Portrait%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Much Ado About Dying&#8217; Review: A Candidly Personal Eldercare Portrait&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Much_Ado_About_Dying_Review_A_Candidly_Personal_Eldercare_Portrait%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Much Ado About Dying&#8217; Review: A Candidly Personal Eldercare Portrait&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Back in the days before LGBTQ+ couples marrying and raising children was legal and relatively commonplace, the most tacitly homophobic characterization of homosexuality was as a \u201clonely lifestyle\u201d \u2014 where queer community was seen as a rejection of family rather than another form of it, its members fated to die in their own arms. It was untrue then and even less true now, though even today, the stigma of non-nuclear family life endures, while child-free people of any sexuality get moues of sympathy when the subject of aging comes up. The challenges of eldercare outside traditional family structures, meanwhile, are sharply presented in Simon Chambers\u2019 piercingly personal documentary \u201cMuch Ado About Dying,\u201d in which the independent lives of two gay men, a generation apart, are entangled in the face of mortality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cI think I may be dying.\u201d It\u2019s with this message \u2014 typically polite but offhand, as if dying isn\u2019t the first thing on his mind \u2014 that long-retired actor David Newlyn Gale summons Chambers, his nephew and a shoestring documentarian shooting in India, to his bedside in a poky London studio. As it turns out, he is and he isn\u2019t. Well into his eighties (\u201cI\u2019m aiming for 91, and will review when I get there,\u201d he quips), David may have years left, but he\u2019s in frail decline both physically and psychologically, holed up in an unsuitable apartment that he never leaves. Excessively stockpiled tins of soup provide his sole nourishment, a severe mouse infestation is dubiously treated with toothpaste squeezed along the skirting boards, while the cold is addressed with a dangerous surfeit of electric heaters that leave his skin alarmingly dry and scabbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    David lives this way in part because he\u2019s incapable of better self-care, but also because he\u2019s preoccupied with bigger ideas: At any given moment, his mind is more consumed with theater and music, poetry and sexuality, than tidying and budgeting. A gay man who only came out in his sixties, but who admits he cannot conceive of sharing a bed with someone else, he seems determined, in some sense, to make up for lost time by devoting his dotage purely to self-fulfillment \u2014 but even he recognizes that he can no longer get by alone. Rejecting offers of help from Chambers\u2019 sisters, he places much stock in his and his nephew\u2019s shared bond as single gay men, however different their priorities and outlooks in other respects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That Chambers is a fellow artist, and one equipped with a camera to boot, is surely no secondary concern. An instinctive performer even in an everyday conversational context, David plays generously to Chambers\u2019 lens as if giving some kind of testament to his own life: Never an especially famous actor, he is finally the star of his own devoted vehicle. Occasionally he masks his anguish behind other people\u2019s words, delivering fiery Shakespearean readings like last-chance auditions for our attention, shot by Chambers in suitably intense, low-lit closeup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But he\u2019s no less compelling a presence when simply muddling through everyday obstacles in broad daylight, with droll humor and an occasionally short temper. He imperiously bosses his nephew with often ludicrous demands \u2014 a scene in which he demands to be dressed with his underpants hoiked impossibly high is a perfectly contained sketch of mundane comedy \u2014 while turning on the charm for his attentive immigrant neighbours, whose kindness turns to dependency when they move in with him, an already untenable living situation that worsens when freak disaster strikes. Though its focus remains unwaveringly intimate, \u201cMuch Ado About Dying\u2019s\u201d perspective quietly takes in a world of systemic inadequacies in the British care and welfare systems \u2014 as well as impossible barriers of privilege when David finally consents to a \u00a31,000-a-week care home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Amid the old man\u2019s turmoil \u2014 and moments of joyous clarity, as when singing along to Hot Chocolate\u2019s \u201cYou Sexy Thing\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s Chambers\u2019 churning sense of guilt and helplessness behind the camera that gives his film its conflicted, ever-heavier heart, alongside the fear that he may be documenting a preview of his own later years. A quiet, reserved figure who at one point claims to have \u201cgone back into\u201d the closet he left as a younger man, the filmmaker tends to his uncle\u2019s maddening whims with a bittersweet empathy that borders on panic, as if investing the care in him that he hopes to receive from someone else one day. 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