While watching many popular Hollywood films you go crazy with rage. But The Age of Adaline, which hits theaters June 11, exceeds our worst expectations. This film will turn even an indifferent phlegmatic person into a furious choleric person.
The unscrupulous scriptwriters of the Dream Factory have woven the plot of this melodrama out of several tons of noodles, which are being hung on the ears of the audience every minute.
The rusty spring of the plot was the far-fetched idea of a woman who, one terrible night, was so struck by lightning that she lost the ability to age. It began to be stored better than canned food for polar explorers. And she lives in this state for more than a hundred years. To make all this far-fetched nonsense stick better to the ears of naive teenage girls (adult viewers don’t even make it to the middle of the film), every scene here is thickly smeared with the sweet syrup of cheap romance.
Before showing this tape, people need to be reminded to turn off not only their mobile phones, but also their brains. After all, even the most superficial analysis of the plot of this stupid movie immediately exposes its disdain for the viewer.
Do you know the multiplication table or have you read more than two books in your life? You are too smart for this tape!
Potentially, the idea of the picture could develop into a symbolic epic about the infantile twentieth century. The main character, hovering at the flirtatious age of “a little over twenty” and in this state having gone through all the misfortunes of the previous century, is his allegory. Indeed, throughout this entire era, humanity has tried in every possible way to preserve and popularize youth and beauty. This is what His Majesty the paradox rewarded the protagonist with.
And it is precisely this pursuit of youth that Western civilization has poisoned the lives of millions of people. The on-screen Adaline could be the personification of this zombification by immaturity.
However, the authors of “The Age of Adaline” simplified everything to a snotty, tsem-tsem-detective. During all these hundred years of the plot, the main character does nothing but change men. And she meets with everyone exactly until it comes to a serious relationship.
She is afraid of the ring, like a vampire is afraid of the cross. After all, neither a ring, nor a crucifix, or any shamanic talisman can remove the curse of fate from her and make her grow old again. Well, considering the fact that Adaline does not want to get into the Guinness Book of Records as a widow of twelve times, she does not want to start a serious relationship.
It is surprising that for a whole century of her life, Adaline remains mentally a teenager. She does not draw conclusions about relationships with men. She does not try to answer any of the questions that insidious fate poses to her. He just jumps from one bed to another.
Looking around the hall after the film was shown, I saw many similar Adalines. These are the same girls, ready to do anything to preserve their youth and beauty. With eyes wet from the film, they watched the credits. So, what infuriates you more: the stupidity of the on-screen heroine, or the dominance of such doll-like Adalines in real life?
P.S.
Connoisseurs of Ukrainian cinema will be interested in tracing motifs in this film that are reminiscent of the film “Button” (2008) by Vladimir Tikhy. In one of the episodes of “The Age of Adaline,” a man also recognizes his longtime lover in a young girl. However, in the domestic film, the motive of love carried by a person through the years is shown without Hollywood magic. The conflict here is based not on genetic equivocations, but on the anomalous similarity in appearance of the mother and her daughter.