"Let go."
Hello everyone!
Back with another movie review this week, although I do have to say all the shows are absolutely living up to their potential for the time being. Monday are totally crowded for me while Dancing with the Stars still lasts, they don't have that much longer to go though so then it should get a whole lot easier! But Blindspot killed it this week, and Supergirl is still adorable.
Back to movies.
THIS one I've wanted to watch from the moment I saw the trailer. Why? Because it looked magical, and I needed something of the kind.
Also, because Blake Lively is absolutely gorgeous in it, and I mean GORGEOUS.
It's Age of Adaline, of course.
The movie begins with our first glimpse of the heroine, Adaline, who lives in San Francisco and works at the archives, where they are just rearranging something and moving books into storage. She finds old newspaper clippins and old, old movies, and while looking at that we learn her true story, and why she went to buy false documents earlier on.
She was born in 1907.
She met her husband after the Golden Gate Bridge was constructed, but he passed away untimely, leaving her alone with their young daughter. Adaline was on her way to her daughter when snow falling in the county made her lose control of her car; effectively, she died, but an electric shock from the water and lightning brought her back to life.
From then on, she stopped ageing, and has been on the run ever since because she could never stay in one place for too long.
One New Year's Eve she meets Ellis (Michiel Huisman), who is persuasive enough and stubborn enough that he keeps pushing her, wanting to get close to a beautiful woman even if she won't allow him. Eventually, he wears her down so they sleep together, but she pushes him away once again, for obvious reasons.
Still, her daughter has a thing or two to say about it, and tells her mother that sometimes, you just have to go with the flow.
So Adaline goes back to Ellis and apologizes, and the pair travel to meet his parents for their anniversary. That's where a shock waits for our Adaline:
Ellis' father, William (Harrison Ford), is actually a man who wanted to propose to Adaline back in the day when they met, but she ran off on him. In this day and age, she plays it off, but William discovers the truth by a scar on her hand, and begs her not to run anymore - for his son's sake.
But Adaline is frightened by this point, and runs once more, even though her heart really, really doesn't want to. Of course Ellis goes after her but he's too late - by the time he finds her, she had already been in a car accident again and her heart has stopped.
Lo and behold though, the electronic paddles revive her!
Adaline then tells Ellis everything, and the movie shifts forward to another New Year, where she is now in a relationship with Ellis, and her daughter lives with them - and she has found a grey hair on her head, meaning she is now ageing again.
A side-note at the end explains how a comet that passed the Earth back at the time of the first accident (and was responsible for freak weather in Sonoma County) passes by Earth again this second time, although later than predicted, and it can be thanked (or blamed) for what has happened to our heroine.
I loved this movie.
That's basically it in a nutshell because I thoroughly enjoyed it, mostly because it didn't have the 'I do but I don't' thing going for it as much as in some others, and was a very beautiful love story at the heart of it, not to mention the story about life. And Adaline's pup was a cutie, too! The space phenomenon with the comet was alo explained in a really basic manner so that it was understandable, and I thought all the actors were superb. Definitely a Blake Livey movie to remember!
I can't wait to get my hand on the DVD for this because I really need it in my collection.
xx
*images not mine
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