Is Anybody There

The rites of passage that this film addresses is that Michael Caine (Magician) retired and was send to a old people's home but couldn't survive a day there because he isn't use to that kind of life style however there is a young boy who is his grandson and then his grandson asks about him now his dad tells him that he's his granddad. And from there they started talking and what made the real change is that he convinced his granddad to start his magician work again and as for there boy he seemed like the type that didn't live for much and didn't have as much friends either so something like magic tricks would be a good impression to make new friends.

This were they build a strong relationship and the boy's life changes because he is now in a tight relationship with his granddad who also decides to teach him magic tricks and these tricks as we can see wowed some of the people around him which probably made him more friends than before. Which would have been a life changing experience for me to be making more friends plus having his granddad as his own personal best friend.
Also for the Granddad himself he experienced a rite of passage because of him meeting his grandson he finds a better way of living his life than staying at the care home. And this boy really challenges his granddad to do things that he did long ago but they seem to work perfectly fine and this makes there rite of passage a very big experience.

The granddad talks to this woman and expresses how he feels about coming into this old people's home and by his dialogue we can tell that he hates it and the fact that he is telling that woman shows that he has some kind of relationship with her to be sharing them kind of thoughts. By the woman's face reaction she is shocked but also feels sorry for him on the grounds that she does know that what he said is actually true. He looks directly into her eyes and pours his heart out about the situation.

The same woman then has the young boy sitting on her lap and tells him that he has all these old people and their amazing stories which basically means that he should appreciate who they are and that image of child sitting on woman's lap shows love , care and protection so some how they might be family or just have a very tight relationship.

Now the main relationship is the boy and the old man because they go through the main rite of passage and it all happens at the same point when they met each other because for the boy it was a new experience to meet his granddad and finding out that he is a magician. They start to relate to each other and build up a strong relationship its like Father & Son that's how close they get and the granddad teaches his a few magic tricks which helps the boy to make more friends and wow more people but before he could get his granddad to do that he had to convince his granddad and show him that he believe in him.
And because this relationship between them was building so strong it made the granddad decide to go back to doing his magical works + teach the boy some tricks.
From the old man's perspective we can say that the boy changed a few thing around for him because the boy gave him a better lifestyle and he also had that believe in him that he could go back to doing his magical works. There relationship kept on building up to the next level and made there lives change a lot.