AQUINO, Rudien Hannah B. 2A12
AGE OF ADALINE: FILM CRITIQUE
Age of Adaline is a bittersweet film that revolves around the concept of eternal youth and the curse that comes along with it. The story brings us into the world of Adaline Bowman, a lady who suddenly stopped aging due to the circumstances of being involved into an accident, and her struggle through decades under the burden of being permanently 29. Directed by Lee Toland Krieger, along with the script accredited to J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz, the movie allows us to grasp factors and issues that come along being able to live forever. However, not all downsides of immortality were explored with enough ingenuity and keenness in the film. They did include scenarios wherein Adaline had to live like a fugitive, moving from town to town and changing her identity to avoid attracting attention and suspicion from being eternally young and all, but only in a hasty flack backs and brief explanations. They mainly focused on the love and relationship dilemma, how Adeline is unable to commit herself into a relationship which brought the film under the same category of cliché love stories.
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Aside from that, it did leave me questioning what type of immortality Adeline had. Is she only able to retain her youth? Or is she also immune to sickness that may cause death? Questions like that were left unanswered, however, that doesn’t mean that the movie is rubbish. With the exception of romance, the film does contain a good amount of drama and scenes that drive you into deep thoughts. It leaves you with a bittersweet nostalgic feeling, a good sign that the film did a great job in creating a connection with its audience. Overall, it was a good film, not at the same par with the award-winning films, but great in its own
The movie is, most likely, done well enough to intrigue its intended audience. It captured the theme and story line of the book. It falls short, though, when compared to the beautiful, sensitive and contemplative prose of Natalie Babbitt. One could only hope that a viewing of the film will lead the watcher to try the book and be delighted all the more.
...es linger on his admirer, and Aschenbach does not seem as pathetic. The object of his affection is willing, and we lose some of the tension from the novel. Most of the mythological, psychological and philosophical references have been removed. Visconti makes Aschenbach a composer, not a writer, with a strong relationship to his (dead?) family. His character is not as fully rendered as in the novel but it is sufficient. Tadzio is probably the best part of the movie. The casting was spot-on and one can see how a grown man could fall in love with that. Some of the strange men are there, most notably the guitarist, but the repetition is not emphasized. The film shows Venice's descent into epidemic well, with the street bonfires and disinfecting of the streets. Overall the movie is almost watchable for an art film, but it does not do justice to the very complex novella.
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
This is an ironic and unfortunate example of a film that would have really been considered a lot better than it is if it were not for the book upon which it is based. It is clear that the film is strong and that it is well made, but when compared to Shelley's novel, it's really a pretty sad mess. The film by itself is more than able to captivate and impress, but to someone who knows the original story, it is a weak attempt to bring the story of Frankenstein and his monster to the big screen.
Ageism is all too common in films. While there are still so many movies packed with stereotypes that view aging as negative, there is a recent movie, which portrayed aging positively in some aspects, the movie ‘The Second Best Marigold Hotel’. While this movie does contain stereotypes and humor about aging, it also shows the visitors leading active, happy, free and independent lives. They are not portrayed as being sick or frail, but instead they are embracing life and their experiences regardless of their age.
I like the artistic picture in the film and I think that the true story conforms enough. In my opinion, this film does not reach the top mark, mostly because of the perceived missing sequences. I would give the film the mark 4 out of 5.
All in all, after watching the movie, I know how to be thankful, the point of persistence and the precious friendship, I have learnt some important things that I didn’t know before. And the best thing is I'm still young enough, I also can fix my behavior and gain experiences.
was a spectacular film there were some things that I did not enjoy like, the
Ageism is a concept that has been around for a very long time. According to a philosopher named Seneca who lived sometime between 4 BC and 65 AD, “Senectus morbidus est” which has been translated to say, “old age is a disease”. However, when Seneca said this the idea of “ageism” was not a thing. It did not get the name ageism till 1969, after Robert N. Butler coined the term. The act of ageism is something we all try to avoid, however most of the time we don’t see something or someone who is doing or saying something that could be considered to be ageism. All though we don’t always see it, ageism is something that happens almost every day of our life; it is that beer commercial with a “sexy” young female in it. Ageism is when a coworker is forced to retire at a specific age. There are even studies that show the ageism stereotypes becoming more common on our social media outlets. The problem with these stereotypes becoming more common in social media is that more and more people are being exposed to something that is starting to have a very big impact in our country, ageism.
Unfortunately, all plot was abandoned for special effects. And this led to several consistency errors. The movie strayed too far from the beautifully crafted work of the novel, missed out too many essential details, for it to really make any sense. Fangmeier appeared to realise his mistake near the end, where several important parts were messily added in, too little, too late.
Overall this film was exciting to watch and was good to help learn a little about the Elizabethan Era. Although the goriness is too much for someone who is sensitive to that kind of thing, you can still enjoy the movie. The costumes are eccentric, the set design is, although outdated, extremely detailed, and was a good movie if you were looking for something to watch and enjoyed a little bit of history in your life.
Although I enjoyed the main portion of the movie, there were some obvious likes and dislikes in my opinion. I believe that I learned from this movie and it helped me understand more of what the people of that time were feeling.
Adaline is a normal woman living a regular life. Has friends, family, love, and lives a happy life that soon takes an unexpected turn. She is on her way home when, with a car accident, her life changes in the amount of time it takes a lightning bolt to strike. She sleeps for many decades before awakening, and realizes that she has stayed the same 29 year old young woman. But time doesn't
The tragedy of old age is not the fact that each of us must grow old and die, but that the process of doing so has been made unnecessarily and at times excruciatingly painful, humiliating, debilitating and isolating through insensitivity, ignorance, and poverty (p. 2-3).
The internal clock inside of us, always running out of time, searching for stable ground. Why can’t I stay young forever? For others it's the opposite, becoming mature excites them. Perhaps the reason why I want to stay in the moment is because it’s clearer than the future. As of right now, I can see what is happening, but I have no idea what the future holds. Have you ever heard the phrase it gets better with time? Perhaps you're trying to move on from a shocking moment in your life. Ageing gives us a path to follow and move on when we can’t do it otherwise. In my own life, I have experienced my fair share of frightening events. For instance, recalling back to the memory of my close relative drowning. At the time I seemed as if life didn’t move forward anymore as if the earth was motionless. I assembled time as motionless, fading the idea of my future. Confused as I looked around, but couldn’t find a way to go. Feeling like all the pathways to my future closed, the experience weakened me. I never felt so lost in my life, like I was existing on this planet alone. Needless to say, eventually the capacity of time pushed me forward, helping me to proceed on. Ageing, without a doubt, can help us move on when we don't have the strength to do it ourselves. Experiencing horror, pain, without a doubt significantly impacts our lives. All of this comes with age, helping us to develop into the