The Up Series

I think I've now endorsed this verbally to everyone I've ever met, so I figured it finally merited a post. Plus I am watching 28 Up right now at my parents' house, and needed a reason to practice taking screenshots of Nicholas Hitchon (below).

The Up Series is an effort by documentarian Michael Apted in which he films a slew of seven-year-old British schoolchildren in 1964, and then subsequently films them every seven years (i.e. at ages 14, 21 28, etc.) until the present. He talks with them about their views on family, education, sex, politics, social responsibility, class, and various and sundry other things, ostensibly without slant or judgment. The results are, in my opinion, fascinating, especially since we are now able to watch Seven Up! through 49 Up in rapid succession, rather than waiting in real time for the episodes to air. 56 Up comes out in 2012; catch up while you can!

Show me the man

at seven

and I will show you

the man.