In The Age of Adaline, a young woman gets in a car accident in the early 1900s and she is struck by lightening and brought back to life. After this accident, Adaline never ages again. She goes through decades moving every ten years so as to not be caught in her unchanging age. In all this time, she avoids making close connections or having photos taken to keep her secret safe.
As time goes on, she falls in love with a man named Ellis. When she meets his family, she finds out that she had actually dated his father at one point in her time on this earth. In realizing this, she bolts away trying to cut off the connection. On the road of leaving, however, she gets into an accident and she regains the ability to age and thus, she is able to be with Ellis.
The movie is quite beautiful. It involves a lot of flashbacks to her time on the earth and what experiences she has gone through. It also includes a narrator at certain points which gives the film a sort of storybook feel. Blake Lively plays Adaline, the woman who never ages and she does a marvelous job of bringing to life not only the character but the hurt and terror that runs through Adaline's mind throughout the entire movie.
Overall, I very much enjoyed every second and would count this movie as one of my favorite movies of all time.
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