This past
weekend I had the chance to finally watch “The Age of Adaline” with Blake
Lively. I had asked my boyfriend Max to watch it with me, and he didn’t seem
too interested in it at first, but once I popped the movie in, he confessed he
had wanted to see it. So I’m glad I had a willing viewing partner.
First off,
holy crap. What a movie. For my emotional and life relating response, keep
reading. For the review on the movie, scroll down to the *****
I don’t think I’ve felt that deeply, emotion
wise, as a response to a movie ever. The movie was really well done to have produced
a response like that. First emotion to hit me hard was sadness. One of the
characters dies in the beginning part of the movie (before the halfway point).
The characteristics of the character’s death hit home because I had something
oh so similar happen in my life.
And the second,
which was probably the most powerful emotion, was love. This one hit me the
hardest, so much so I almost had an anxiety attack with how deep the truth hit
me. Like Adaline, I too ran from love, obviously not for the same reason: I’m
aging just fine and did not have my DNA affected. Due to fear, or the man not
treating me well, I always found a way to get out of the relationship. Even
though I wanted to share my life with someone, be married, make a home and all
of that, I’d always find something wrong that I “couldn’t get over” and get
myself out ASAP, with no second thoughts.
Sometimes second thoughts would creep in later, but I’d shut them down
and overrule them. For those of you reading this who’ve known me a while, you’ve
known this about me, that I’ve been in a fair number of relationships.
I was never
content, until Max. I never felt secure, until Max. I never felt comfort, until
Max. I never felt love for anyone like this, until Max. I never realized how
much I could love, until Max. I never wanted to share a life, buy a house, or
get a dog with anyone, until Max.
I never felt
nervous to lose someone, until Max. I never wanted to be selfless, until Max. I’ve
never cared so deeply, until Max.
This movie hit me hard in the heart. I looked over at Max at some point during the movie and just felt a rush over my body of deep appreciation for all that Max is. The rush was overwhelming and adrenaline fueling. I’m pretty sure due to the similar circumstances of love with Adaline and mine: something just clicked in my head and released these feelings, and helped me see deeper how much love I have for Max.
I don’t know
that everyone will feel this way about their loved one after watching this
movie. But if you haven’t seen it yet, go ahead and give it a go. If you’re
single, give the movie a go and see what you can get out of it, I’m sure it’ll
be something.
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As far as
the actual movie goes, it was a beautiful movie. The acting was great.
Cinematography was great and the storyline was awesome.
It wasn’t
what the trailer made it out to be. The trailer I thought, made it seem like
there was a man who also didn’t age and chased Adaline through the centuries.
While instead, Adaline falls for a man hard in the current year. (I think they
made it 2014 and then the movie came out earlier this year). That was a bit of
an “Oh, ok” moment. I was actually kind of hoping to see how it would have
turned out having two ageless people find each other through the centuries.
One thing I
was a bit confused on is in the beginning, once Adaline became ageless, the FBI
approached her on the street and she ran from them. I kind of wish they would have
expanded on that. I don’t think the FBI would give up on an interesting case
like that. After that part in the movie, we don’t see any more of them
throughout the entire movie. C’mon people…tie up loose ends, or don’t have any
ends that could unravel and be loose.
That’s all I
have to say on the movie, and how it affected me, and I’m done bragging about
how awesome Max is and how I feel about him and what not. Tune in for the next
post, probably a book review. I’ll end it here.
Until next
time
-S
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