Let's look at the criticisms.
It's unoriginal. Seriously, when was the last time you saw an original film? There are only about 6 themes possible.
Lack of emotional range of the main character. She is from a by-gone age and she is emotionally mature. As you age, you stop acting like a hysteronic teenager.
Predictable? Not so much.
Adeline suffers the emotional losses of aging while not getting to look forward to the peace that mature adults know will eventually come our way. She is forced, by her chromosomes, to survive but not to enjoy life. She is stuck with the inability to have a relationship that enjoys the journey from youth and vitality to age and the mutual fade to black. She benefits from the gift of perspective that comes only with age. She also suffers from the gift of perspective in that she knows what will happen in the lives of others.
As they say in Texas, this isn't her first rodeo. And it's a rodeo that lacks an ending.
Until.......
It's unoriginal. Seriously, when was the last time you saw an original film? There are only about 6 themes possible.
Lack of emotional range of the main character. She is from a by-gone age and she is emotionally mature. As you age, you stop acting like a hysteronic teenager.
Predictable? Not so much.
Adeline suffers the emotional losses of aging while not getting to look forward to the peace that mature adults know will eventually come our way. She is forced, by her chromosomes, to survive but not to enjoy life. She is stuck with the inability to have a relationship that enjoys the journey from youth and vitality to age and the mutual fade to black. She benefits from the gift of perspective that comes only with age. She also suffers from the gift of perspective in that she knows what will happen in the lives of others.
As they say in Texas, this isn't her first rodeo. And it's a rodeo that lacks an ending.
Until.......