Whether living forever through magical waters, aging backwards, living life over and over again or being reincarnated and reunited with the love of your life, the whole idea of going against the natural order of nature and the way that God sets up our life is a scary concept. You are born, you learn about life, go through a variety of experiences, and then you age and die. To have anything beyond that always brings on consequences either tragic or painful, and how the human mind can't fathom surviving decades past all these losses just gives me chills.
I have seen so many of these sagas of fantasy and science fiction and I thank God that I am a mere mortal. In the case of beautiful Blake Lively, her story is beyond the realms of sadness. A young widow with a young daughter, she goes through a scary accident where the laws of nature go haywire and make her seemingly immortal. Looking 30 but having a daughter in her late '70s, Lively ends up running away every time she either gets too close with a man or when the law begins to become suspicious of her. Daughter Ellen Burstyn urges her to give love another chance, and with the perfect man, Michael Huisman, her dreams seem to be coming true, that is until she meets his father, Harrison Ford.
The suspension of belief as you watch this movie takes you into Lively's troubled world that reality tends to bring on the message of the real world, but the message of the desire for immortality causes and reality is bravely explained. Lively gives a remarkably touching performance, and there is humor added in the scenes with a delightful Burstyn where the young woman still continues to act like a mother to her daughter, play by Burstyn when she was 80. Slow moving at times, it takes much concentration to put all of the pieces of this complicated puzzle together. It is not for the non-romantic or the severely cynical, and an abundance of similarly themed films might make this a "pass" for others. Still, it is often touching and profound, and somewhere, you may find a serious moral to bring on a conclusion to.
I have seen so many of these sagas of fantasy and science fiction and I thank God that I am a mere mortal. In the case of beautiful Blake Lively, her story is beyond the realms of sadness. A young widow with a young daughter, she goes through a scary accident where the laws of nature go haywire and make her seemingly immortal. Looking 30 but having a daughter in her late '70s, Lively ends up running away every time she either gets too close with a man or when the law begins to become suspicious of her. Daughter Ellen Burstyn urges her to give love another chance, and with the perfect man, Michael Huisman, her dreams seem to be coming true, that is until she meets his father, Harrison Ford.
The suspension of belief as you watch this movie takes you into Lively's troubled world that reality tends to bring on the message of the real world, but the message of the desire for immortality causes and reality is bravely explained. Lively gives a remarkably touching performance, and there is humor added in the scenes with a delightful Burstyn where the young woman still continues to act like a mother to her daughter, play by Burstyn when she was 80. Slow moving at times, it takes much concentration to put all of the pieces of this complicated puzzle together. It is not for the non-romantic or the severely cynical, and an abundance of similarly themed films might make this a "pass" for others. Still, it is often touching and profound, and somewhere, you may find a serious moral to bring on a conclusion to.