if i was adaline i wouldn't want to have sex with someone young enough to be my great grandson.

I'd LOVE to be with a girl that just happened to live through so many parts of history!
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THANK you for posting this I kept thinking the same thing !! "That's now how your dad does it"

Ugh one of the most celebrated films of all time The Graduate had the Dustin Hoffman character sleep with both mother and daughter. Does this stuff happen often? I don't know. I guess people don't talk about it much. The Age of Adaline is saccharine Hollywood rom-com crap.
I guess now that Adaline is finally aging, she will age 80 years in one year, and then Ellis will dump her. If they have the guts to follow this storyline, then maybe I can respect this movie. I thought it was going to be like Benjamin Button but I was wrong.

You're right friend. Its one completely unnecessary sickass storyline

things could be worse you know like actually Ellis is the love child of that relationship .. double yucks LOL

On the other hand, he gets to live the rest of his life with a 29- year old Blake Lively. (As far as he knows).

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What isn't?

it's forbidden in islam

Haha It is fiction.

Bang on. Disgusting storyline in a completely sht movie. Who's the perv who wrote this puke? He/she should be arrested and charged.

@LilyDale, I agree with you 100%. The film skipped the areas that had the potential for complexity, originality, and depth and instead opted for the predictable Hollywood romantic dramedy outcome.

Um you were actually right (almost) as I have saved such an article but since tried to save face with a lame excuse I won't bother!

Ha-ha, you reference my old comment from Oct 3rd. Yes, I admit that comment was not a serious one, I made it up simply in response to the absurd subject of the OP. Idiot viewers who come up with stuff like that deserve a nonsensical response and I gave one. Glad you noticed!!
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The poster who said that that "some cultures let a father have sex with his son's intended bride" was a troll, and trying to be sensationalistic. I've NEVER heard of that, ever. Not even in cultures with royal incest (Ancient Egypt).
There IS a very old Jewish law in the Old Testament that says if a man dies, his wife can marry his brother but this dates from the Abrahamic era of polygamy. I've never heard of anyone doing in the recent historical past. But even so, brothers similar age siblings is not "your father having sex with your future wife".
The story here just skips over the very obvious problems that would arise in this family the aging wife would be jealous and hurt.the father (Harrison Ford) is clearly still in love with Adaline..the son would probably start thinking "hmm, wonder what she was like when she was boinking my DAD?"..not only "awkward family dinners" but an awkward emotional situation for the next several decades and beyond.
I think it is one of the deep flaws in a story (that had great potential to be intriguing). I think the Harrison Ford character should have been the male protagonist's BOSS or mentor or next door neighbor. NOT HIS DAD. It makes the whole thing overly complicated when it could have been simple and direct.

To the ancient Hebrews and maybe the modern Orthodox Jews a father and son (or a brotherunless the brother was continuing his brother's blood line)having sex with the same woman was a serious sin and was considered close to having sex with you father or son.
Never heard of a society that encouraged or required a father to "try out" future daughter-in-law.

Also what would the mother think about the situation? Her daughter-in-law used to date her husband.

Plenty of them? It was pretty darn common in Medieval UK and Europe. There's also a lot of South American and African cultures that do the same thing. Have you never watched or read anything on anthropology? It was also very common, especially for the aristocracy, titled, and royal lines to get escorted to their rooms while a group of people watched the woman get deflowered. It was pretty common for bloody bed sheets to be displayed for all to see the new husband's prowess. Happened pretty commonly in Roman times as well. Lol.

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Yep, those are gonna be some awkward family dinners.

I don't know about Ellis. While watching, however, I was thinking how utterly bizarre it would have been for the father to watch his own son carry on relations with his great, long lost love from youth. That scenario, to me, would seem very painful. I know the Ford character is happily married to someone he loves deeply, but still.

Ok, thanks for looking. I'm always curious about social history and norms. ?

I'm looking for it. I know it is somewhere around this cloud.
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