The biggest gimmick of this film is to stay forever on 29 Year-old Adaline.
I like this film because I never get tired of the topic of immortality.
Is eternal life a blessing or a curse?
In "Interview with the Vampire", he is immortal, watching his sister slowly aging and dying, while looking at his sweetheart in the dark but unable to get close. After living too long, the immortals will eventually face a problem: they have nothing but themselves.
Although immortal, Adaline is not immune to physical damage, water and fire, and does not have superhuman speed and strength to protect herself. Her weapon is wisdom, and her strategy is to escape. Flee from friendship, flee from love, flee from possible harm. The only thing that made her feel alive was her young daughter.
After all, Adaline is lucky to have a caring daughter who can tell the truth and talk about her true feelings; besides that, she can only refuse everything with the indifferent attitude of being thousands of miles away.
I really like the film’s interpretation of Adaline: immortality will naturally have more time to learn various languages, French, Italian, and even Braille; because she is not old, her memory will always be the same as that of young people, and her knowledge will become more and more profound; in order to survive, she has Rich knowledge of financial management is more than enough to survive; she chose to work in the library and spends a long time the pastime is reading books and watching discs; time has allowed her to accumulate elegance, demeanor and wisdom; she is incognito, declined some public places, and declined the camera. Change your status every ten years.
With her daughter's encouragement, she finally mustered up the courage to accept her boyfriend's courtship; she was also tired of escaping.
Freud's theory says that people have the instinct for life and death. Only death can make people get rid of struggles and swings and enter a stable state, where there are no more emotions, no more sadness and sadness.
She knows the end result: her lover will eventually grow old, she will lose again, and once again she has nothing, but she cannot resist. Perhaps, it was just the instinct to live toward death that dictated her choice.
If there is no one to share eternal life, time is just a cage.
Some people say that Adaline, who has lived for more than a hundred years, does not look like a hundred years old at all. So what should a one-hundred-year-old immortal be like? Standing at thirty, knowing destiny at forty, Adaline has enough time to think during the long years. The calm and tranquility is exactly what Adaline looks like: there is nothing to excite her, and there is nothing to do. Surprised her, staying away from trouble, and neither disappointed nor pessimistic about human nature, everything is just a passing moment for her, everything is dust in front of time, only beauty is eternal.
The most dramatic passage is when she reunited with her lover thirty years ago. The former Pian Pian boy became her father-in-law (do you know how small the chance of such a reunion in reality is), she was still astonished. Gently covered up quietly.
What good is it to tell the truth? The truth will only lead to danger. Since the old love is no longer possible, it is better to just leave it lightly.
Harrison Ford is heartbreaking here. I don't think about it, I'm unforgettable, I can only see it in a dream, and I never know that youth will meet again. He blurted out and called out Adaline's name, and repeated it twice in a gaffe: "We are very close friends".
If she hadn't left him back then, can they still be together now at the age difference? Will they have children? How should he and she arrange their future?
This topic is too heavy, so the director used a bloody car accident to rescue Adaline from cruel immortality.
"Perfect". Adaline said softly.
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