AIMEE PRICE. DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT Time is merciless, inexorable and omnipotent. It renders the past heartbreaking because forever lost; choices have come and gone and all that is left is their consequences. As for the future, time creates a sense of anxiety. Day by day, we wonder if we will have enough of it to achieve what we have set out to do, or if it will run amok with our plans and dreams. Co-writing and directing Aimée Price gave me the opportunity to offer a stirring and entertaining voice to this sense of powerlessness. Aimée's relationship to time is one of fear and anger. She struggles with growing old because she can’t fathom the idea of losing her youth and beauty, the only qualities she felt she ever had. Her journey may seem motivated by vanity, but it is deeply rooted in a culture that vilifies time. Our society glorifies the fleeting experience of youth at the expense of the wisdom, sense of accomplishment and peace of mind that only age and experience can offer. New customs, TV shows and surgical procedures create unrealistic role models and expectations that foster a lack of self-worth and an inability to age gracefully. |
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