if you are a twenty-something you have to watch this!
How did you imagine your twenties to be? Untroubled, a healthy bank balance, your own place, a glittering career and a gorgeous boyfriend? Not lived up to your expectations?
Welcome to Quarter Life Crisis, a series of short films on Current TV looking to discover the causes behind a common issue affecting twenty-somethings across the UK, screening on Thursday 19th February at 10pm.
The newly coined term “Quarter Life Crisis” is the so-called Mid Life Crisis minus a generation. Following the fun and carefree life of University or a gap year, today’s twenty-somethings are realising that chosen career paths may prove less than appealing or fulfilling, relationships may be going nowhere, money is tight; and hangovers last a whole lot longer!
Instead of their once happy-go-lucky existence, now it’s all about stresses and pressures, marking the transition from young, free and single status to family, work and the burden of responsibility – the mid twenties have arrived, and somehow the future may not be looking so bright.
In the same vein as Current’s recent revealing and insightful seasons of Wasted and For God’s Sake, Quarter Life Crisis showcases a series of investigative and first-hand accounts, created by those in the thralls of the phenomenon themselves, and aims to provide an insight into the issues facing today’s twenty-somethings.
Video highlights:
What If I Told You I Loved You?
Watch a preview of the obdoc here http://current.com/items/89803392/what_if_i_told_you_i_love_you.htm
Isis Thompson is a brave woman. Determined to find out what all the people she has ever loved really think of her, she catches lovers past and present unawares on camera, by declaring the exact dates of when she fell in - and out of - love with them…often broaching the subject for the very first time.
The young bi-sexual confounds her motley crew of past lovers, flings and secret girl-crushes with the question “What if I told you that [from this date to that date] I thought I was in love with you?” eliciting a huge range of candid emotions ranging from anger: “after everything we went through together, what was it that made you sleep with our flatmate?”, to surprise: “…so you stopped loving me yesterday then!”). Whilst some are touched and flattered, others are shocked and saddened.
Just as Isis tells her former lovers what she thinks about them, they return the favour, often begging the viewer to question, “Why on earth would you want to open your love life to the public?”. But in doing so Isis accurately reflects the confusion, brutality, romanticism and sheer diversity of love available to the average twenty-something in the 21st century…together with the passion and pitfalls it can entail.
