"I guess I age now"


Her reaction to realizing she ages now is so unemotional. Nobody endures any change that significant with such grace. We're meant to think she considers this good news, but why not exclaim then? Even most good news comes with a tinge of loss too.

I guess it was slick way to end the movie, but it was too slick. Maybe Blake didn't have the range to play that scene in a more realistic and emotional way.

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Your comment fails to acknowledge that not everyone reacts the way you would in any given situation. I think I would react the way she does, after a while I believe most of us would actually not look forward to living forever and never being able to get into a normal relationship with another person who ages. I believe for most people living 80 or 90 years is long enough.

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Have you ever seen those videos where a deaf person hears for the first time? I would expect some emotion resembling that. Not the emotion as if someone just found their wallet after missing it for an hour.

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She's over one hundred years old. Her emotions are tempered by a long life.

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Quite right... When you've lived a very long life you reach a point of boredom where fading off is no longer something you fear but something you begin to look forward to... no need for her to be upset after living 90 years.

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Did we see the same movie? She was clearly stunned by what she found, and very clearly stopped what she was doing and began considering the implications.

It was also well-done with the "Are you okay?" line from out in the hall. Then the scene cuts to the overhead shot of the Golden Gate bridge. Personally, I really didn't need to see her break down in tears or running around and jumping and screaming like she just won the lottery.

And as to her range, she had already showed that previously when she breaks down to William when he discovers her identity.

I thought it was a brilliant end to the movie, and I like it every time I see the scene.

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She stopped checking her makeup for a second. Then continued on her way. She also appeared to quickly make the assumption that her aging process is now going to continue at a normal rate instead of a just as equally likely (in her case) situation of aging at an accelerated rate. She had a mildly happy response at something that should have been very confusing, uncertain, scary, but hopeful.

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Yeah but she noticed a single gray hair with just a momentary glance in the mirror. It even took a few seconds for her brain to process it, according to the film, as it would in real life when you just saw something that was so unexpected you almost didn't even see it.

And upon seeing that scene, it seemed logical to think that she hadn't seen a SINGLE gray hair on her head since the initial accident which set her condition in motion. And if that's the case, then it makes perfect sense that to suddenly see a gray hair where none had appeared in 80 plus years (hell I'm 43 and I've got a number of them already) that she would assume that her condition had changed somehow.

And as Bill Murray said in "Groundhog Day", "Something is different. Anything different is good."

It was the first sign of hope she'd seen since she realized she was no longer aging. It doesn't seem out of place that she'd become emotional over it and hope, as you said, that it meant she might be aging again.

Granted, there's a lot that could happen after that, although I'd think a sequel would be unwise. But you bring up some great points. Is it just a slowed aging? Will she live another 300 years as she ages to become an old woman and eventually dies? Will 80 plus years catch up to her in 5 years in a debilitating storm?

But then the narrator takes care of that. The story is over, the resolution has been achieved, and the story is concluded. She begins aging normally again, and can live her life normally with Ellis.

I still thought it worked quite well.

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Good points, I guess I can't get miffed when someone doesn't react the way I expect them to. Everyone reacts differently, and she had been somewhat subdued emotionally during much of the film (which I attribute to the years smoothing out her emotional peaks and valleys as happens with many people). We also missed a full year where she could have had other possible small signs that maybe something was different...perhaps this was just the biggest sign to date and it solidified her suspicions.

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I felt the same way about the scene ib the hispital

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I felt the same way about the scene in the hospital...
"He knows" like it is that simple. Oh, by the way, I haven't aged in about seventy years. Okay, cool.
I felt there were a lot of things like this in the movie that kind of ruined it for me... it just wasn't quite what it could have been because of moments like these.

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it's a relief to her that she can now live a normal life. Age like a normal person. maybe she and ellis can even have children.

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My sentiments exactly. She would have fallen to her knees sobbing and run to her daughters arms in joy and hug it out.... she would, if I had been the director.

But then again, had I been the author, she would have eloped with Harrison Ford and likely died in the end...

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Her greatest emotion was probably relief, which isn't that easy to play.

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