Cast:
- Blake Lively as Adaline Bowman
- Michiel Huisman as Ellis Jones
- Harrison Ford as William Jones
- Ellen Burstyn as Flemming
- Kathy Baker as Kathy Jones
- Amanda Crew as Kikki
Synopsis & Insights:
A dramatic romantic film known as the age of adaline tells the amazing story of a woman named adaline bowman who stops aging after an extraordinary incident that happened to her in the 1930s. Adaline, as seen in the movie and played by Blake Lively, is also quite an introvert who lives a single life while defying age and below a hundred years. For this reason, each time she becomes someone else, changing her location as well, and avoids intimacy and her condition’s exposure, she changes her name.
Aside from the appreciation for Blake Lively’s stunning look, she was impressive as Adaline who has a turbulent heart of wanting a normal life but the dread of being discovered. The graceful manner in which she portrays Adaline from the beginning to the end of the film accentuates the agelessness of her character such that Adaline is both timeless and real.
In the film, romance blossoms again for Adaline as Ellis begins to warm up to her, a handsome and highly effective young man played by Michiel Huisman. The relationship becomes further complicated by the return of Ellis’s father, William Jones, played by Harrison Ford, who had a romantic interest in Adaline many years ago. The character of William, perhaps the most complex and emotional film character, was played by Harrison Ford, who later, after recognizing Adaline, realizes the harsh truth.
Ellen Burstyn plays the role of Flemming, Adaline’s daughter who has no issues with growing older which adds the emotional aspect of the story as Adaline does not age while her daughter does. Their bond persists in demonstrating the price which Adaline has taken upon herself in order not to disclose her secrets and the solitude that accompanies such a task.
It was makeup to make this movie about love, loss and time in its passage. The successful combination of these two concepts in the subgenre of fantasy romance gives a beautiful story about the problems of immortality and the need to belong and be normal. The Age Of Adaline is outstanding in terms of its visual aspects and the acting of the leading characters, Lively and Ford, making it a beautifully awful drama.
As for the fans of plain romantic dramas with a little edge to it, The Age Of Adaline is such a charming and heartbreaking story which one would still think about when the end credits roll. Its a film which makes the audience ponder over the concept of time, love and every choices we make over our life.
