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 Age of Innocence is a film about confinement, restraint, and stoicism. Characters drift from tea, to the opera, and home again. They attend lavish parties, and observe the rigidity of English decorum; marry, have children, and die. Emotion is mollified by these various diversions, and all of upper-class New York appears to be content being anaesthetized by the idle task of upholding wealth and reputation. Only Countess Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer, with their feverish love for one another, test the bounds of this suffocating social structure.
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.
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.
Final thoughts, I really liked this film and really can't think of anything I had an issue with. The musics fitting, the cinematography is good and the ending is great. That said the whole time I was watching Re-Animator I kept thinking of how much this film feels like Return of the Living Dead and that made me just want to watch that instead. But that's just me and I still heavily recommend you watch this film should you find yourself with time to watch a true cult classic.
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.
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.
Aging has changed throughout history. The aging population has changed drastically over the course of past generations. Many people are living to a much older age. At this time in history, according to the film, anyone dying before the age of 80 is a premature death. 17% of the total population of the United States is elderly. This film shows how all the dramatic changes have happened in society involving the elderly not only effects the aging population, but they also affect everyone especially family life.
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.
...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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
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