While 4 and 3 were good, i think Spielberg's short is really great. If you didnt get teared up at the end when Mr. Agree (as a boy now) says "Im sorry but I cant take you with me Leo"..."Please take me with you"...then you must be "sittin around mopin"
share"KICK THE CAN" is okay. I made a post here years back, because I didn't understand the ending. When the old man stays a boy, says goodbye, and runs off. Did he turn into Peter Pan and fly away to Neverland? Did he die, and his ghost happens to look like a kid?
"KICK THE CAN" is pretty much the odd man out because it's the only feel good, non-horror related segment in the film. Had the infamous helicopter accident not occured, I wonder if Spielberg would've contributed a horror segment?
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I just watched it again for the first time since the theaters back in the early 1980s, and the grown man version of the boy was missing at the end. Nurses were asking who had seen him and where could he be, so I'm guessing the boy got to stay a boy.
The rest, while loving the opportunity, quickly learned (for various reasons) what Mr. Bloom already had decided, that it is better to be your correct, current age with a young mind.
Apparently, the one who got to stay a boy was quite happy getting to be a child again, and was okay with the bittersweet downsides of it that had frightened the others back to elderly age. And they were happy going back to reminiscing about their youth with their beautiful new perspective of young minds, courtesy of Mr. Bloom.
And if YOU didn't get teared up when that poor man stood there holding his suitcases for the who-knows-how-many week in a row as his son and daughter-and-law frantically rushed away telling him yet again "bad timing, maybe next week," about coming for a visit at their place, you must be "sittin around mopin" without a heart. :^D :^D