I have yet not seen the new Robert de Niro/Anne Hathaway film “The Intern”: it opens here in Australia in mid-October, a few weeks after the US opening on 25 September.
According to the trailer (see below), this film has a whole lot in common with another film with which it may be confused: “The Internship” (2013) – which, by the way, for reasons I cannot fathom is MY MOST POPULAR POST EVER (yes. the upper case letters are on purpose). By latest count, I have had somewhere upwards of 4,000 or more views of my review of “The Internship”.
From the trailer, one major theme of “The Intern” is that even in this “dot.com” age of youth culture and 25 year old CEOs, maturity, wisdom and experience are still valued. That clearly was a theme of “The Internship”, and what a comforting theme it is … for those who are in the baby boomer generation who see our skills dating and the digital economy undergoing such rapid and profound changes.
The “tag line” of “The Intern” is “Experience never gets old”. A fantasy? Perhaps. More like probably.
I think ageism in the workplace is a far more significant phenomenon than the professional experience of a 70 year old (the Robert de Niro character) being recognised by a corporation (except, of course, if you are a major investor, with lots of cash … but that’s a whole other story).
But “good on you”, Nancy Meyers – a baby boomer if there ever was one (born 1949), for keeping our fantasies alive.
View the trailer here:
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