didn't make sense.
Why were they so interested in working out if there was an afterlife when they were all on the verge of finding out and had no way to stop it?
Rather than taking the film literally, I thought it was more social commentary on how the Baby Boomer generation is the first in the modern West to leach of the young and leave them with a hopeless future.
Baby boomers "leaching of" the young? In your case, seems like baby boomers failed teaching the young. Anyway, what happened, grandma and grandpa or mommy and daddy didn't leave you any money in their will?
Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.
You realise the BBs are the first Western generation ever to have a higher standard of living than that left for their offspring, right?
My parents are too old to be BBs, so I am not personally invested at all.
Look up generations, because if your parents are older than baby boomers, they must be in their graves. And, btw, Gen X made more money than Baby Boomers, and is the first generation to have a higher standard of living than their descendants, and the director and writer of this film is Gen X, but you go right on making up your own alternative facts about "old people".
Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.
Gen X are not richer than BBs in my country and neither is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
The Silent Generation, also known as the Lucky Few, were born from approximately 1925 to 1941.[26] It includes some who fought in World War II, most of those who fought the Korean War and many during the Vietnam War.
The Silent Gen are between 90 & 76 years old ATM, not all in their graves yet.
It seems you are the one who resorts to alternative facts.
Sounds like a really weak and vague social commentary.
Why are old people interested in anything, when they're soon going to die anyway? Also they had been working on this for 17 years, meaning that they weren't terribly old when this started. Would be weird if they joined a sick torture cult to find out about the afterlife, and after like 10 years they just said "Ah, *beep* it, I'm too old now." People are curious about tomorrow, next week, next year. If you're a mad fanatic to begin with, I doubt you can just sit down in the chair and feel content with waiting a few years.