Too Old to Die Young

TV Mini Series
2019
18
1h 16m

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7.3/10

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Detective Martin Jones, who leads a double life as a killer for hire in Los Angeles' deadly underground, suffers an existential crisis which leads him deeper into a blood splattered world of... Read allDetective Martin Jones, who leads a double life as a killer for hire in Los Angeles' deadly underground, suffers an existential crisis which leads him deeper into a blood splattered world of violence.Detective Martin Jones, who leads a double life as a killer for hire in Los Angeles' deadly underground, suffers an existential crisis which leads him deeper into a blood splattered world of violence.

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Trivia
Was packaged to the Cannes Film Festival under the title "North of Hollywood, West of Hell."

Goofs
The show focuses on the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. While they do have the ability to make arrests anywhere in the county, they generally do not patrol in the city of Los Angeles (as represented in the story) since it's covered by L.A.P.D. instead. The Sheriff's Department works in unincorporated towns like Altadena and East Los Angeles, incorporated cities that contract with them like Santa Clarita and West Hollywood, and transit agencies like Metrolink and Los Angeles MTA.

Connections
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 712: Toy Story 4 (2019)

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8/10

A beautifully evocative tale

We cannot be certain of our true selves for we are not the rational creatures we purport to be. We lie to ourselves constantly. And when we do reveal ourselves - it is often with the suddenness and venom of serpents. At the heart of Too Old to Die Young lies a mandala of irrational selves, where characters are adrift in a vivid dreamlike emptiness that is both conscious and unconscious and "time is a river that flows in both directions."

The characters cannot help but to be molded by the irrational, by choices, accidents, violence and experience. You do not need a brick by brick plot in order to decipher them-for with these characters the mighty stone has already dropped into the river when we meet them - and the rippling gyre is already in motion. This is the genius of Refn. The ripples widen, slow and fade like the pure tone of a Tibetan gong.

The cinematography is bold and saturated; the location and settings and lighting is equal to the characterization. It is beautiful and challenging and violently poetic. If you need to cling to manifestations of order and generalized stereotypes to enjoy a work of art - then this won't appeal to you.