The story of Adalin Bowman in the film "The Age of Adalin." Adalin Bowman: Biography

"The world has changed since the last century. Adalin is not. " This phrase can be given any value, if you do not know that we are talking about the film. "Century Adalin" was released in cinemas a year ago (in 2015) and collected completely different reviews and opinions of film critics. On the one hand, this film is very boring, with no special embellishments, which Hollywood directors love so much. When watching the movie it seems that something interesting, incredible, amazing is about to happen. But nothing happens.

On the other hand, Adalin Bowman (the main character) makes you think about the essence of being. It is not superficial, not just to evaluate your life, but deeply, paying attention to every moment, every second ... And to understand that eternity is torture.

About the film "The Age of Adalin"

The theme of eternal youth rises in the cinema with an enviable regularity. But if in all the other films released attention is focused on how it would be perfect, then "Vek Adalin" demonstrates the reverse side of the coin. And she, alas, is gloomy.

Lee Toland Krieger, the director of the film, thoroughly approached the issue of its creation. But, unfortunately, not all people can penetrate the essence of the script so deeply to understand and accept what he is trying to convey to people. Krieger even dares to suggest that in 2030 physicists will be able to invent a law by which a person can obtain immortality. Only here is it necessary? The painting "The Age of Adalin" most colorfully answers this question.

The story of Adalin Bowman: the first 29 years of life

On January 1st, 1908, at 00:01, the most common child appears, a girl. The only thing you can pay attention to is that she became the first person born this year. At that time, no one could have foreseen, that her destiny - the length into eternity ...

In mid-June 1928, Adalin and his mother went to the bridge, which was soon to be completed and opened. By the will of fate from the girl's head, the wind tears off the hat that a handsome young man catches. Already in September he becomes husband Adalin Bowman, and after 4 years they have a daughter, whom the couple calls in honor of the grandmother on the maternal line - Flem. In February 1937, her husband Adalin perishes. After exactly 10 months after this event, on December 17, 1937, what has changed the girl's whole life is happening.

Deal with destiny

Adalin went to her five-year-old daughter, when the snow that was rare for that area began to fall. Because of the rain, the girl could not manage the control, her car flew off the cliff and finished her movement in the icy water of the lake. At this moment, the male voice-overs describes what happens in the body of a young woman. In short, the temperature of Adalin's body begins to fall due to the ice water. When it drops to 30 degrees, the heart stops beating. Otherwise, doctors would have recorded the time of death. But here comes what can not be explained: a lightning strikes the car. This powerful "ray" had an effect on Adalin Bowman, more precisely, on her heart, as a defibrillator. The discharge was so powerful that the girl came to life. Literally returned from the next world, having survived a clinical death.

The Curse of Eternal Life

The daughter grows - Adalin does not grow old. First, a 40-year-old woman, who does not look 30 even, laughed off when her friends asked how she managed to preserve her appearance so well. French cream, proper nutrition - the woman is trying to find an excuse. The turning point is the usual verification of documents, when Adalin violated the rules of the road. The policeman asks the girl to come to the station with a birth certificate, and then he will give back her driving license.

The woman understands that to stay here, in this city, where many know it, becomes dangerous. Suspicions were translated into reality - one evening, when she was gathering her home from work, representatives of the special services were waiting for her at the entrance. Then Adalin Bowman incredibly able to get out of the car, which she was put in and brought to the helicopter pad. Miraculously avoiding endless experiments, she says goodbye to her daughter and leaves the city. Since then, only three have been on the list of her constant surroundings: her favorite dog, daughter and blind pianist, who could not even imagine how young her girlfriend looks.

"You need to stop"

For the next 78 years an ageless girl is forced to change her place of residence, work, name and surname every decade. Only age remains unchanged - she is always 29. It is not known how much more she would run, if not for "unexpected love," which came when she was not expected at all. But Adalin waited. After all, who does not want to meet old age with his beloved. And she constantly had to run away.

During the celebration of 2015, when the young beauty was about to turn 107 years old, she met her eyes with a nice guy. In such cases, they say that a spark has blown between them. The girl at that time was already preparing for the move and even purchased new documents. But the 83-year-old daughter, who looked more like her grandmother, even then began to say: "Stop!" Adalin herself and thought about it, but at the same time realized that she could not do it. Can not stop. Adalin Bowman, whose biography stretched for a century, was very tired of infinity, but did not understand how to correct the situation.

Perhaps the girl would do the same as she always did: moved to another city with new documents. But she decides to go with Ellis, her boyfriend, to his parents. Who could have known that her beloved's father, William, was a former boyfriend of a charming "old lady". First she said that Adalin is her mother. The elderly man believed, although he did not cease to be surprised at the similarity. His role was played by a scar on his hand from a deep cut that the woman received while resting with William. And he sewed up the edges of the wound. As they say - to deny is meaningless. Adalin showed weakness, told everything to William, but then she realized that she had to run. The man just managed to repeat it several times: "Do not do this, stop running, you need to stop."

Reverse effect

Then the film about Adalin Bowman tells how everything got to square one. Having left by Ellis's car, she realized that she could not continue like this. Deciding to return, the girl began to turn the car, crashed into another car and rolled off the cliff. This time there was no pond, the car turned over several times, Adalin flew through the window and froze. Her body temperature dropped to 30 degrees. She took 2 breaths for a minute, and then her heart stopped beating.

It is snowing. As it was then, 78 years ago. Ellis, who drove after Adalin and saw the overturned car, ran to the woman, began to do artificial respiration, heart massage, but to no avail. Adalin again experienced a clinical death, from which she was led by paramedics with a defibrillator, whose discharge was about the same power as the lightning. When the girl was discharged from the hospital, she went to the mirror, she found her gray hair, and realized that now her desire to grow old and die next to her beloved person will finally come true. She told Ellis everything, and now they will live without secrets, the years that fate has given them.

Many people think that Adalin Bowman is a real story, a real person. But this is not so. Although, who knows, maybe, somewhere in the world, a young 107-year-old beauty is looking for her refuge ...