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Welcome
to
GRUMBLECORE.COM
Grumblecore? What the heck is
that?
It's like mumblecore, except
it's for
audiences that are a bit more
mature.
Are You Ready to...
Grumble?
It’s time for
senior moviemakers to step up
and show the mumblecore movement
how
to stop muttering into its angst and
actually say
something worth hearing.
Okay, okay, so I’m being a bit
sarcastic
about the surging outbreak of
ultra-low-budget
movies featuring
twentysomethings talking, talking, talking
about relationships and sex and then about
sex and
relationships, while, like, you know,
not quite finishing their
sentences. Like.
We seniors could call our new movie
movement grumblecore, because many of
us have plenty to complain
about:
multi-decade marriages gone south; jobs
moved
overseas; new careers we can’t
compete for, nor even comprehend;
retirement savings that won’t last one
“golden year”; no
long-term care insurance;
family members scattered across the
nation
and universe; and guaranteed short-term
futures as a
varsity players in shuffleboard
hell.
We also could call
our movement
stumblecore. We have, after all, managed
somehow to stumble a long way through
life, figuratively and
literally. Now we may
be having real balance problems when we
walk or when we try to put two thoughts
together as we we
talk.
We could call our movement crumblecore,
as well.
Hey, you think you’ve got angst,
mumbledude? Try riffing about
sex and
relationship woes when you don’t have your
false
teeth pasted firmly in your mouth,
when every joint in your body
aches, and
when your impotence medicine suddenly is
making
everything and everybody look blue.
Likewise, try getting on
with your life’s next
great chapter knowing that it’s, like,
death,
and it really is, like, just ahead.
Will it be a
cardiac roadside bomb? A sniper
attack by the Big C? A no-joke
stroke? Or
just one of a million other sanguinary
surprises?
Mumble, mumble, mumble; mutter, mutter,
mutter; grumble, stumble, crumble....
Cut! That’s
definitely a
wrap!
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