So she has the secret to stop aging,
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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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Rob-O-Cop — 10 years ago(September 15, 2015 05:29 PM)
haha, that would have helped it make more sense if it was in the movie, and william knew her secret at the beginning and had the chance to discuss the implications of not aging. probably won't watch this movie ever again though.
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Rob-O-Cop — 10 years ago(September 21, 2015 08:16 PM)
It's not up to her to know it, although as pointed out by other posters, in her world there were scary people who would kidnap her, in the real world they'd probably pay her beep and figure what was going on asap.
The reason wouldn't be discovered till 2035 in her world because she selfishly kept the secret to herself, letting billions of people age needlessly.
Thanks adaline, you selfish cow. -
kay_cee_d — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 01:21 PM)
Oh I'm
so sure
you would give your life and your body over to science if this happened to you. You do realize you would probably never see the people you love again? That you would be held captive and likely experimented on to the point of torture? Don't be so dumb. -
Rob-O-Cop — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 06:09 PM)
"You do realize you would probably never see the people you love again?"
do you have cases you wish to cite to prove this in our western world?
you do realise that's illegal? in our world. in her world of fiction, we need to believe that's the case because the story would fall on it's ar$e without it, but in our world it's as simple as labs taking samples and testing them, no need for the cage, unless you particularly want to be locked up. That's the problem with the world of fiction, people like yourself find it hard to tell the difference between it and the world outside, you should go out there some time, it's not as scary as you think it is. -
sand-soldier — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 02:28 PM)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
Yeah the US government would never conduct any medical experiments that would be considered illegal by modern day standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
Also the government would never forcibly remove US citizens to a location not of there choosing.
In real life during the time period she lived in she would have been snatched up and sent to a government lab. -
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lansdownehouse — 10 years ago(March 07, 2016 05:57 AM)
What? Submit to a lifetime (read eternity) of imprisonment, experimentation, torture and ultimately probably vivisection voluntarily? Who would want that.
Yes some people willingly sacrifice their lives for their fellow man: a mother for her children, a father for his country perhaps, but for no nobler cause than other people's vanity? Doubtful.