I will examine and problematize representations of old age and aging based on how the protagonist of this film, Carl Fredriksen, was represented. I will explore how this film, simultaneously, draws on depictions of older men to maintain socially acceptable boundaries, and challenges these same social boundaries to create a narrative of alternative masculinity in old age. I will focus on discourses about old age decline, ageism, self-reinvention, and concepts of alternative masculinity. While watching this film, I wondered: what narratives based on stereotypical depictions of old age are used in the film; the extent to which the narratives presented in the film create and/or provide discourses aimed at keeping older people within socially acceptable boundaries; and/or question social boundaries? I also explored how this film uses chronological age as a category to justify inequalities and social divisions. At the same time, I observed how this film uses the processes of action and self-transformation in old age. This film offers two extreme perspectives from which to look at old age. On the one hand, the film's plot draws on stereotypical depictions of older men, keeping them within largely socially acceptable boundaries, while also challenging social boundaries by creating alternative forms of masculinity for older men, mainly to contradict a misconception. widely accepted declining narrative about older people. Almost from the beginning, this animated film introduces the audience to the character of a lonely old widower, Carl Fredriksen. He is portrayed as a methodical, stuck-up, angry and sulky man. He wakes up at 6:00 a.m. to the sound of an alarm clock, straight...... middle of paper ......h "Up" Director Pete Docter. Interview with Terry Gross. National Public Radio, November 29. Erickson, Erik. 1997. The life cycle complete. New York: WW. Norton Company. Foucault, Michel. 1997b. The marked philosopher. In Michel Foucault: Ethics, subjectivity and truth. New York: The New Press. Katz, Stephen, 1996. Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. Kivnick, Helen Q. 2010. Dancing Vital Involvement: A Creative Old Age. In Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts 4, no. 4 (October-December): 421-430.Mueller, Gabriele, 2009. The elderly traveler: cinematic representations of masculinity after retirement. In Life stories: the mediating age. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. Reynolds, Gretchen, 2011. Super Athletes. AARP The Magazine, March-April: 48-50, 80-82.