Hoppipolla

I may accidentally repeat something that's already been discussed about Hoppipolla, but I'm behind on blogs, so.
     I know somebody said something about this film was about the inner child. I'm not a big fan of the inner child. I think it sounds mushy and not as much fun as being a real child. And anyways, if this was a film about the inner child, then I would imagine that this film was meant to portray a group of old people literally running around with wooden swords and jumping in mud puddles. But I can't imagine any old people literally doing that. For one thing, no matter how childlike an old person is, they most likely wouldn't enjoy spending a whole day doing all that running around; it would just be too painful and tiring.
     So, when I think of this film, I think of figuratively. Maybe it was old people who were daydreaming about doing all this stuff, or remembering their younger days. Maybe it's a film about what life would look like if most old people really DID run around and act like kids (that would be an interesting world, wouldn't it?). Maybe it's a film about real kids who will one day grow old. Maybe (and this is the one that my brain seems to cling to) it's a film that says, hey, these people are not stuffed animals, they're not furniture, they've really had a life and they have individual personalities and they used to get into trouble when they were kids. Yes, they really used to be kids. So often I think we look at old people and we stick them in a box labeled "Gray mush." Not alive, never was alive, not an individual. Have you ever thought of one of your grandparents, or an old person at church that you know, and tried to imagine what they were like when they were 30 years old and raising their families? How much their personality has or hasn't changed since they were ten years old? How they felt about their parents while they were growing up, and how much they loved them and depended on them, and now their parents are dead and they don't have that support anymore. I'm off the subject of the film now, but did you ever try to imagine the life an old person has lived and is still living, and see them as not an old person but as a person?
     One more thing and then I'm done: did you notice they were playing in a graveyard?This guy was once a kid. Really. A cute little five year old.