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| A belly dancing class in The Villages. |
If you're a fan of documentaries you may enjoy Some Kind of Heaven. But there are no guarantees. The film, released in 2020, takes a close look at the world's largest retirement community called The Villages, located in Florida. It focuses on the lives of four specific residents, all of whom are extremely depressed. I'm sure there are some happier people living there, but they are not in this movie. (Spoiler alert: Make sure you're feeling good when you start watching, or you might end up swallowing a handful of sleeping pills with a bottle of vodka and ending it all before you ever get to the point these people are at.)
On the one hand, you'll get a good look at a retirement community, which is a whole other way of life and supposedly a good one as the title suggests. Shot in truly vibrant technicolor, the images fairly pop off the screen. People drive around town in golf carts, attend all kinds of classes and activities, play lots of golf and pickleball and do plenty of dancing on the village square seemingly every night. It's party, party, party all the time. On the other hand, just shoot me if I have to live there.
See for yourself. It's on Hulu.
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