Concrete Playground

It was with no small sense of trepidation that I dragged myself to a screening of The Age Of Stupid. Not because I didn’t want to see the film – far from it. More because it’s difficult to resist the pull of arguments coming from a filmmaker like Franny Armstrong.

While I wouldn’t consider myself a revolutionary, seeing her previous film, McLibel, changed my life. I started attending protests, joined a student socialist group and decided to become a teacher, since I was nurturing a strong but vague sense of wanting to ‘help people’.

Fortunately or unfortunately for me, The Age Of Stupid is even more brilliant than her earlier work. How this film manages to be so reasonable, so accessible, so hilarious and so emotive at the same time is beyond my comprehension. You should see this film not because ‘you should’, but because it’s so darn enjoyable.