The Age Of Adaline Movie Analysis

The movie, The Age of Adaline, was released on April twenty-fourth, two thousand and fifteen. It is about a woman, named Adaline Bowmen, who is driving to her parents’ house to pick up her daughter, and she wrecks her car, and lands in a body of water. A lightning bolt flashes down into the body of water and sends the bolts through Adaline’s body, making her age, and appearance, freeze in time, at twenty-nine years old. The Age of Adaline is based off of the book, with the same title. Adaline becomes her daughter’s “friend,” or at least that is how they introduce her. Matt Seitz appeals the background of the characters, the main points of the movie, and compares the movie to the book, even though he contradicts himself very clearly in the review.

“As written by J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz and directed by Lee Toland Krieger, ‘Adaline’ starts off handsome but dramatically inert. The third-person storybook narration drifts in and out as needed” (Seitz). The similarities between the book and movie are what Seitz says it, “feels more literary than cinematic” (Seitz). Describing the movie as literary, helps better understand that the movie very similar to the book. “’The Age of Adaline’ has a symphonic purity of feeling, piecing together simple closeups and elegantly choreographed wide shots so intuitively that the story seems to be telling itself” (Seitz). The story, as from the book, tells a story of a woman, who is stuck in her ageless time. Readers, and movie goers, are in the mist of finding out the truth. As in the book, Adaline Bowmen is captured by the F.B.I. and taken in for tests, but much like in the book, in the movie, Adaline escapes. Adaline does not know what has happened to her. For all Adaline Bowmen knows, she will be twenty-nine, for the rest of her

Some readers, and movie goers, agreed with Matt Seitz, and some of those readers, and movie goers, did not agree with him. The overall review was a success by giving an insight into the past projects of the actors, also known as background information, providing main points about the movie, without giving away too much to where readers know what happens, and by comparing the book to the movie, so that the readers of this book can go see the movie, without fear of the movie being off key with the book. Even though Seitz contradicts himself in the review, the review is an accurate description of an honest mind, put to work for readers to