Adaline, born in 1908, was able to live forever because of an accident. From then on, only her experience and heart can be gradually changed, and her appearance will not change anymore. Time flies, Adaline in the current time and space is over a hundred years old, but she is still slim and beautiful like a flower. In order to conceal the mystery of being immortal and protect herself and her family, she constantly changes her identity and does her best to live in secret and low-key. The only daughter in the world who knows her secret is the only daughter who accidentally gained superpowers needs a double identity in the crowd. In front of others, the gray-haired daughter claims to be her grandmother. Only when the mother and daughter meet alone, does the daughter only Will call mother.
From the Second World War to the present, how Adaline has lived through this extraordinary decades of life, these movies have very little explanation, I can only see the floating light film feather, it is conceivable that: in these decades, she must have tried many different things. For his profession, he has also mastered more skills than ordinary people. And through these skills to gain the greatest freedom. Of course, also fall in love with men of different generations. Adaline’s pain is not visible in the lens, only the ease and care in her life. After so many years, she is still beautiful, even lighter than the real 27-year-old woman. She has seen the turbulent changes in the world over a century. See through people's hearts and human nature.
Adaline’s solitary house has a huge hidden space, just like the bat cave in Batman Bruce Wayne’s house. This is the secret space for her transformation. Not only her beloved beautiful clothes are placed in it, but also all kinds of objects suggest. As this hidden space is connecting with some of her beautiful memories, it will lead her to the past that she likes and nostalgia at any time. In the movie, she took out a retro-style halter red velvet long dress and walked into a restaurant she was familiar with. It was easy for her to "retro" because it was only once. An old-age photo displayed in the hotel window shows that she had participated in a party here in the 1940s. It used to be horrified and smiled like a flower, but now it's just a faint greeting to the familiar bartender and piano player, and find a corner to sit quietly. Now she is more willing to be an audience.
The film does not describe in detail how Adaline escaped from one lover after another. In the movie, she suffers from the loss of her pet dog. Looking through the album, there are a bunch of photos of men from different generations. Those are her former lovers. She believes that it is better to choose to disappear when the feelings are still strong. When immortality becomes a super power, the price paid is the heart that is gradually vicissitudes of life because of constantly looking back.
It is a desperate thing for a person to live forever alone. Watching the relatives gradually get old, and can't have a lover who is always by their side, Benjamin Button in "Rejuvenation" has gone from an old baby to a retrograde life in time, and gradually returns At the beginning of life, Adaline seemed to be trapped in the black hole of time. No one saw her soft and bright appearance, the vicissitudes of life. When your heart becomes harder and harder, it is love that can traverse the hardness and make everything soft. The powerful energy of love can run through the day and night of life. Especially for Adaline, it is only enough. Only by its softness can its hard inner castle be opened.
The former lover, William played by Harrison Ford, met Adaline again. He appeared as his son's girlfriend. The old drama bones used his eyes to perform the huge shock and convulsions at that moment. She who left without saying goodbye that year was like an unsolved mystery. , And Adaline's eyes are filled with restrained but uncontrollable warmth. Seeing their eyes, I feel that there is some long-stored emotion in the air releasing. Whether to say goodbye when the attachment is deepest, the relationship between the two people will be frozen into a giant whale in captivity. It will not be until the next time they meet. After being released, William's eyes were saying that the deep-sea whale had started swimming again.
In an oriental story "Secret Love in the Peach Blossom Spring", Jiang Bin Liu misses his first love girlfriend Yun Zhifan, and he does not forget his past feelings until the dying years of the wind and candles, and the newspaper is looking for it. , Become the pain of alienation and unattainable in the old age. The treatment of unfinished love in Eastern Stories is often the fading out of "gazing for a long time, the geese passing by Chu Tianshu".
And The age of Adeline believes in the power and duration of love. The young William meets Adaline again, and his body is surging with the passion and enthusiasm of the boy of the past. After discovering the secret of Adaline never getting old, he said to her who wanted to leave in a hurry, please don’t disappear from Ellis, just like it disappeared from me... The boy was already a father, what he did is Awe and respect, respect the current emotions of this woman who travels through time and space, and maintain awe of love.
The most memorable part of the movie is that Ellis wants to pursue Adaline while driving away, and William holds the car key and asks his son if he really loves Adaline.
"Do you love her?"
"Yes."
"How do you know?"
"Dad ,I……"
"It's a simple question, How do you know?"
"Yes, because nothing makes sense without her."
Ellis is different from others in that he not only fell in love with Adela at first sight, but he still loved her even after having the opportunity to know everything about her. This dialogue is the film’s definition and attitude towards love.
For Adaline, the various magnificent life brought about by immortality are not as good as spending a peaceful and unremarkable life with the person in love, and the happiness of aging slowly together. At the end of the movie, when she saw the white hair, she found that she was getting old, accepting it, calmly rejoicing. "Perfect."
With the power of love, it doesn't matter if you lose the super power.
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