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      7 Plus Seven

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      Reviews 87% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Read More Read Less

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      Janet Maslin New York Times Constitute[s] as fascinating a work of popular sociology as you may ever see. Rated: 5/5 Jan 15, 2005 Full Review Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine The first entry in Michael Apted's anthropological study of human lives that will slowly take shape over the course of another five films. Rated: 3.5/4 Oct 26, 2004 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com The second chapter in Michael Apted's longitudinal chronicle of the British class system Rated: B+ Mar 4, 2011 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Over the course of 500-some minutes of footage, few surprises await Rated: 3/5 Nov 11, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Yuuuup, this series is 100% my jam. So far this is stimulating from both the timeless human element, and a historical context as we are treated to a raw view into the prevailing mindsets in these various eras. I'm not sure if production did a bang up job selecting which kids would participate, or if I am just witnessing a fundamental difference in children over a 50 year span. I am just not sure I would expect the same sort of nuanced and well thought out answers these kids were responding with in 1970 when asked serious questions about god and the state of the world, if these same questions were asked of kids of the same age today. It will be hard not to just binge this whole series over the next 24 hours... 8.5/10 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member The twit trio (even as Andrew and Charles grow increasingly uncomfortable with John's reactionary trolling): We're not necessarily typical examples. And I think that's what people seeing the program might think, falsely. And they would tend to typecast us. Such is the attitude and ideology, of course, of the privileged white male, who believes the silver spoon in his mouth makes him exceptional, and who as a result misunderstands that all statistical social constructs (which necessarily included the hoi polloi) are made up of exceptions, that the ordinary is amassed from the extraordinary. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review david f This is the foundation on which is built the staggeringly great Up Series of documentaries. Based on the saying, Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man, this episode of a British television show was meant to show the future citizens and leaders of England in 2000 based on their comments and behaviour at 7 years old. It was just getting started. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The fact that this series of films is so firmly intent on proving the inescapability of class immobility doesn't affect how impressive it is to see the changes in those children from when they are 7 to seven years later, and how their life views are so strongly molded by their environment. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Drastic changes in personality make this an intriguing watch, and moreover, one has to wonder just how much exposing them to the world seven years earlier affected their lives here... Perhaps it wasn't the most responsible bit of film-making in the first place. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Some of this was just heartbreaking. Interesting to see how asking these questions ("What do you think of X?") turns from an exploration of what a child thinks to how one's point of view evolves over time, due to outside influences. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Michael Apted