The Age of Adaline

She was born in 1906, and when she is in her twenties she is in a car accident, is struck by lightning, and stops aging. This eventually attracts attention from government types who would like to take a good look at her. She quickly realizes that life as a guinea pig isn’t for her, and learns to change her identity when she begins to look too young for her current one. She is now over a hundred years old, and has done her best to avoid emotional entanglements because of the obvious problems of staying young while he grows old. But she has met a man who is very determined …

It’s a love story, and a good one, and the only thing I did not like was the totally unnecessary narration that intruded from time to time, giving bullshit “scientific” explanations for what was happening. This is a fantasy story, like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or The Time Traveler’s Wife. Science has nothing to do with it. It should have been told in that way. She stopped aging. Deal with it. Now, on to our story …