Just to add something to what I was writing yesterday regarding the video for Now And Then and its relevance to the notion of time and staying young forever. Underlying the beautifully blended shots of the younger Beatles and their later selves is the inescapable truth that we don't stay forever young but, at one and the same time, our younger selves, for better or worse, remain essential to what we become. I suppose that sounds more than a bit pretentiously deep, but the film and song convey the notion in an appropriate spirit of playfulness.
There's a moment when we see for the first time the elderly (80+) Ringo singing back-up to the Lennon vocal, along with Macca, and he's completely, delightfully, lost in the moment. And that's immediately followed by a black and white shot of John & George, circa 1964 at a guess, laughing as they harmonise playing live. We could be back in the middle 60s with all of them, or earlier. We're not very good at time, are we? We sort of float through it, out of our depth. But in those moments when we lose ourselves in the joy of it all we make a kind of sense and learn something of what we are here to do with the time we are mercifully given.
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