In 2015, a fantastic melodrama “The Age of Adalin” was released at the box office, reviews of which are diametrically opposed. A brief summary of the storyline of the picture is the story of a woman who, as a result of an unprecedented natural phenomenon, lost her ability to age and lives for a century, hiding from the authorities.
Plot. Tie
The plot of the painting “The Age of Adalin” (2015) is based on the life story of the main character Adalin Bowman (Blake Lively), who was born in San Francisco in 1908. Adalin’s life proceeded quite normally: she grew up, got married, gave birth to children, and lost her spouse. But once in 1937, the heroine, going on a night trip by her mother’s car, falls into a real meteorological anomaly - snow fell in California. The woman was distracted from the road, and her car, moving off the lane, falls into the water. The main character drowns, her heart stops, but then a lightning bolt hits the car, which not only revives her, but also gives amazing superpower - her body ceases to age. Already by the plot of the plot, it becomes clear, “The Age of Adalin” is definitely a fantastic film, and the further, the more interesting.
Almost the climax
The young look of 45-year-old Adalin is suspicious of the police and the FBI, therefore, in order not to fall under the close supervision of the authorities, the heroine decides to change her name, profession and place of residence every ten years. And so 2015 begins, the woman still looks 20 with a ponytail, lives in her native San Francisco, introduces herself as Jenny and works as a librarian. Adalin feels that the time has come for the next move, she is already looking after a cozy house in Oregon. But at a New Year's party, she meets her and tries to look after a charming philanthropist, nerdy and millionaire Ellis (Mihil Khaushman). And his father (Harrison Ford) intends to find out everything about the girl who was interested in his son. So, preserving the intrigue, you can describe the plot action of the film "Age of Adalin" (2015). All the fun begins after meeting the main characters.
Mercilessly Lame Logic
The film "Age of Adalin" was criticized by critics as an average melodrama, calling the production of director Lee Toland Krieger guilty of this. According to film critics, the director took interesting material, but failed to translate it properly, and he allowed the main character to do only one thing in the frame - just to be dazzlingly beautiful. In addition, the film suffers from mercilessly lame logic (the whole plot as a whole and individual moments), which is sacrificed to developing romantic lines. The director’s attempt to clarify the situation and fill in the gaps in the narrative, using an off-screen voice with quasi-scientific explanations of what was happening, was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, the main thing is that “Age of Adalin” is a film that has an expressive eye-catching, intriguing culmination and touching touching denouement, while unconvincing arguments overlap with vivid visual illustrations.
Actors and roles
In such romantic sensual melodramas, an incredible load falls on the performing staff, and the film was frankly lucky with this. The Blake Lively, Mihil Haushman, Ellen Burstin and Harrison Ford decorated the “Age of Adalin”. The actress, who played the main role, before participating in the project was the star of the series “Gossip Girl”, distinguished herself in the original film “Jeans Mascot”, shone in Ben Affleck's “City of Thieves”, disappeared after the movie “Especially Dangerous” and now declared herself again in melodrama "Age of Adalin." Starring Blake Lively. Her skill can not be unambiguously assessed, the fact is that at first it is not fully disclosed, so it may seem to the sophisticated viewer another copy of Gwyneth Paltrow. But closer to the climax, her pressure is growing, the actress shows an enviable skill, revealing to the viewer the widest range of feelings of her heroine, and she does this naturally, emotionally, but appropriately.
Echoes his partner Mihil Khaushman - a modern knight, though without armor and a horse, but with valor, intelligence and honor. But the reviews of the film “The Age of Adalin” are not called leading actors, but actress Ellen Burstin, who embodied the image of her daughter Adalin. Yes, and veteran acting Harrison Ford confidently re-plays his colleagues, being the viewer in his most romantic way in the last decade.
disadvantages
Good acting cannot automatically make the film perfect - The Age of Adalin can be criticized. Firstly, despite the efforts of the actors, the lively love of the heroines of Lively and Ellis can not be called. Secondly, sometimes the director was too keen on the desire to demonstrate all the skills of make-up artists and the richness of Adalin’s wardrobe from different eras. Sometimes her memories do not contain any semantic load, but are made only to ensure that the actress demonstrated a new wonderful image. Thirdly, the climax of the resolution of the heroine’s problem (agelessness and immortality) turned out to be much more ridiculous than its occurrence. This, of course, is not the most important thing in the cinema, but it is impossible to treat the essence of the justification so casually.
Summary
According to professional film critics, a romantic-fantastic melodrama intrigues the viewer and retains his attention for the most part due to the background. Flashbacks, which are rich in narration, turn out to be more emotional than the plot present, and makeup and costumes have an advantage over dialogs and words. The “Century Adalin” reviews were not called an immortal masterpiece, but it will surely captivate the viewer for the entire timing, since the picture uses its strengths accurately and carefully.