So she has the secret to stop aging,
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theycallmebrandon — 10 years ago(September 10, 2015 05:07 AM)
Nobody wants to live that long. 50-70 years is more than enough for those of us struggling from day to day.
Not to mention the population explosion that would bring us famine, disease and war.
Gtfo of here with your hell on Earth fantasy. -
kay_cee_d — 10 years ago(September 19, 2015 09:01 PM)
in what way is not dying a curse?
When the people around you are dying and you have to watch your CHILD grow old and get closer and closer to death. When you know that if you ever get close to anyone you'll have to eventually watch them get old and die and that you are ultimately completely alone in the world. When the government is trying to lock you up and perform painful experiments on you which means you have to constantly be on the run to avoid them. When the life that you loved (it is pretty clear she lord her time when she was younger more than modern life) is gone and dead in the past. -
Rob-O-Cop — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 07:52 PM)
Well if she'd just stumped up to some ethical scientists she would have been able to share her anti aging secret.
You've describes how not dying compared to others dying is a curse, I said in what way is not dying a curse on a personal level. She remained fit and healthy, didn't have to deal with her body becoming decrepit and failing. Nothing was stopping her killing herself when she had enough. it's not that she was immune to death by catastrophic accident. pop her in a meat grinder and she's as dead as the next accident prone factory worker.
All she had to 'suffer' was her body maintaining her health. oh poor poor her. -
cmtlshem15 — 10 years ago(September 08, 2015 08:47 AM)
For starters, I don't think the concept of immortality is really that helpful, but that's a philosophical discussion that you might not want to get into since it seems you've already made your mind up on it.
She was unconscious and nearly dead when the lightning struck the car, so how could she know what really happened? She may have been able to put together some theory, but it's not as simple as "she has the secret." It was a complicated combination of factors that was given to us by a removed omniscient narrator. She didn't get the same information that we did. All she knows is that she crashed her car into some freezing water and somehow survived.
I can't blame her for being scared of the FBI, especially in a time period when the methods of scientific testing may have been very crude and painful. I doubt that the process would have been humane, and they would have robbed her of her autonomy by locking her up like a lab rat. -
Rob-O-Cop — 10 years ago(September 09, 2015 08:31 PM)
I think you're making excuses for bad script writing, although I guess they need it to have a story, otherwise it would be women gets hit by lightning and helps discover the cure for deteriorating bodies, and that would be very boring.
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cmtlshem15 — 10 years ago(September 09, 2015 08:53 PM)
Oh well no argument there, this was not the best writing I've ever seen in a movie! I really didn't love the way that so many of the essential plot points required the cooperation of a whole list of insanely convenient coincidences. There were a lot of moments that necessitated a suspension of my disbelief. But for Adaline to fear the idea of becoming a human science experiment was one thing that did make sense to meespecially when she experienced the drawbacks of her condition firsthand and knew that eternal youth wasn't all rainbows and unicorns.
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jeffmelchior4 — 10 years ago(September 09, 2015 10:45 PM)
Actually that's a great idea Rob-o-Cop. Apparently everything else needs a gritty reboot in order to please the ridiculous Millenial generation, why not the common chick flick too?
Movies work within their own worlds. Despite or because of its flights of fancy (contrivances and all) this movie worked within its own film and genre. More importantly, it had some beautiful cinematography. -
Rob-O-Cop — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 03:51 PM)
The cinematography was beautiful. Some high end expensive shots in there. Made me wonder how they pulled in the good crew on this average movie. The director specialises in this type of film. He must have friends in high places.
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bridgetjones12002 — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 07:38 PM)
otherwise it would be women gets hit by lightning and helps discover the cure for deteriorating bodies, and that would be very boring.
There was no "cure" for "deteriorating bodies". Time stopped magically for one woman who was 29 years old and
blessed
to be healthy and look like Blake Lively with money and a gorgeous wardrobe and several handsome men who fell in love with her over the course of her 107 years on this planet, and who knew what a curse it was to outlive or have to run away from everyone she loved (including her daughter, and watching
her
age and die while she still went on) before they discovered her secret.
What would you have said if it was a movie about time stopping for a 75 year old man who had cancer and lived for another 100 years and couldn't die and was doomed to survive in agony? Think living forever then would have been such a bargain??
It's a
fantasy
. And the best part is the endwhen she finds the gray hair and is happy and content when she realizes that she will age and grow old with this man that she loves.
immortality, something special that could help so many people, everyone, but she decides to keep that to herself so she can live a quiet life.
Lovely sense of community spirit there.
Oh, Hitler and his ilk deserved that generosity of spirit and sense of community? lol.
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Kariann1 — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 12:48 AM)
My first thought was, "Oh, no I won't be around, although my Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren will be."
I really enjoyed the film and Blake is perfect casting for the role. Her looks remind me so much of the top actresses of the 1940s. Maybe that was deliberate? I also wonder how many would die if science could manufacture lighting bolts and test further theories? -
death_2_arthur — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 07:24 PM)
Ahh, yes I'm sure, Mr. Rob-o-cop, that had you been in the same situation as her you would have gladly traveled with the shady G-Men, gleefully flown to goodness knows where, and with a song in your heart be subjected to all manner of horrifying experimentations.
All in the name of community spirit!
You sir, are a rare bird and I tip my hat to you.
I, being a normal person with normal survival instincts, would have run like a cat with it's tail on fire. Just like she did. -
Rob-O-Cop — 10 years ago(September 12, 2015 02:32 AM)
because the g men thing actually happens in real life..
There are plenty of people who have unusual conditions and are helped and studied noninvasive in the real world, that's pretty much how it really works.
No g men, just small time universities studying and helping. -
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eliel77 — 10 years ago(September 13, 2015 08:09 PM)
Rob-O-Cop, its not explicit in the movie but Adaline has a a great sense of community. Early in the movie she realized that she has the key to make people live forever, and after thinking a lot about the subject she concludes that it wont be good for the planet if people dont die. William tells her that if people stop dying the population of Earth will be around 20 billion in 2020, and she finally decides that she needs to keep her gift in secrecy.
Thats why William became an austronaut, he was searching others planets to people from Earth live. If he ever find another planet, Adaline could share her secret to the world.
I think you kinda missed this part of the movie, I suggest you to watch again this movie. You are getting the wrong picture of Adaline
Jacarutu!
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