Letters To Juliet is a 2010 romance film about a journalist who finds an old love letter about a man she shouldn't be in love with. This journalist tracks down this woman, and together with her and her grandson, they search for the man she wrote about in her letter. The young journalist is fascinated by the letter she found, and when she meets the woman behind it, I feel that she's captivated by her still fond love for this man, and she see's the older woman as a wise person. That is the first representation regarding age in the film; the young woman find's the older woman very wise and is interested in everything she has to say.
When the older woman is close to being reunited with her old lover, she almost backs out, and this makes me think that she feels like she did all those years ago. She's nervous to see this man for this first time in a long time, and she acts like he's her first love, like a teenager again. This is a positive representation of age - it's showing us that you can love like you're young, even if you're not young.
The whole film's representation of age is positive overall. The young journalist is so interested in the woman as a whole, and she writes about her and produces a successful newspaper article based on her. The older woman is, in the end, reunited with her old flame which tells the audience that age doesn't matter when it comes to love - anything could happen. The film has a positive message about it, which makes the film so much better.
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