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Marathon

10 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Joel Huston Dodge is 92 years old, single, with one son, and by his own account still has perfect sight, hearing, and speech. He works as a cabinet maker, a trade he has practiced for decades, and he has built up a personal collection of books, antiques, and wooden barns that the film treats as worth seeing in its own right. Director Ashish Dawar frames Dodge's ordinary biographical facts as a setup for a question: what actually makes a life remarkable at that age, when health, skill, and possessions can all look unremarkable listed one by one? The short film stays close to Dodge himself, letting his age, his craftsmanship, and his accumulated objects answer the question in place of narration or argument.