영화 <멈춰진 시간>
The Age of Adaline
2015년 영화이다. 29세 아들레인(Blake Lively 분)이 교통사고로 익사직전 번개를 맞았다. 고압 전류에 DNA가 바뀌었는지 늙지 않아 벌어지는 스토리이다. 자신의 딸인 플레밍과 자매처럼 보일 때까지만 해도 축복받은 젊음이었다. 신분증의 나이는 45세인데 29세 얼굴로는 지인들과 소통이 불편해졌다. 숨어 살기로 작정하고 본명도 거주지도 바꾸었다. 심각성을 인지했을 때는 이미 FBI 수사대상이 되었다. 80세 할머니가 된 딸의 조언대로 107세 나이를 숨긴 채 남자친구 앨리스를 만나 사랑한다. 남자 친구 아버지의 결혼 40주년 파티에서 윌리엄스(Harrison Ford 분)는 옛 연인 아들레인과 닮은 그녀에 놀란다. 상처를 꿰매준 손을 보고 아들레인임을 알아차렸다. 사실을 밝혔지만 혼란스러운 107세 그녀는 또다시 도망친다. 드라마 <천국보다 아름다운>에서 죽은 남편을 만난 김혜자가, 젊어 돌아가신 친정엄마를 만나는 장면과 오버랩될 만큼 비슷했다. 시간을 엿가락처럼 늘려보면 눈에 보이는 늙음과 젊음이란 아무런 의미를 갖지 못하는 것 같다.
고린토스의 시시포스왕은 자신을 잡으러 온 죽음의 신 타나토스에게 족쇄를 채워 한동안 아무도 죽지 않았고, 아내에게는 자신의 제사를 지내지 말라 하여 저승에서 이승으로 돌아올 빌미를 만들었던 꾀쟁이의 원조였다. 삶의 과정에 흔히 있을법한 일이지만 신들을 속인 죄로 벌을 받는다. 카뮈의 <시시포스의 신화>에서 끝없이 굴러 떨어질 바위를 이고 지고 정상에 올려놓는다. 유한한 인간만이 불멸의 신에게 당당히 맞서 해내는 일이었다.
투병 중 호전되어 별일 없으려니 연락이 뜸한 친구가 홀연히 떠났다. 동년배들 중 먼저 이승을 떠난 지인이 늘어나며 우울하다. SNS 톡방에는 예상 기대수명이 115세로 나왔다고 "브라보! 나의 인생!"을 외치는 글이 공모에서 상을 받았다. '청년처럼 사는 어르신'을 '청어'라고 칭했다. 니체의 문 안쪽과 바깥쪽은 과거와 미래의 경계이고 죽음과 삶을 갈랐다. 젊어서는 읽다 말았던 니체의 '초인'을 이제 읽기에는 공허했다. 죽은 친구들이 '차라투스트라는 그렇게 말했을 뿐'이라고 훈수 두는 듯하다.
https://youtu.be/DUz6YCRcc9U?si=6qcKO5-fEtwJHi-k
Starring Blake Lively, Harrison Ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdlvtidmG1U&t=435s
Adaline Marie Bowman was born at twelve-oh-one a.m., January 1st.
6:47 Nineteen-oh-eight, at Children's Hospital, San Francisco, the only child of Faye and Milton Bowman, On June 16th, 1929, just as Adaline Bowman and her mother stopped
to admire the expanse, where three years hence construction would be finished on the
Golden Gate Bridge, a young engineer displayed uncommon gallantry. Eighty-seven
days later Adaline married Clarence James Prescott, at Old Saint Mary's Cathedral in
San Francisco.
7:47
Three years later Adaline gave birth to a baby girl. They named her Fleming.
after Adaline's paternal grandmother. On February 17th, 1937 eight workers and two
engineers lost their lives when a section of scaffolding fell through a safety net during
construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Among the deceased was Adaline's husband.
8:23 Ten months after her husband's death, Adaline was driving north to her parents
beach cottage where 5 year old Fleming was waiting up for her, when something highly unusual occurred, something almost magical.
Snow fell in Sonoma County, California,
9:26 The immersion in the frigid water caused Adaline's body to go into an anoxic
reflex, instantly stopping her breathing and slowing her heartbeat. Within 2 minutes.
Adaline Bowman's core temperature had dropped to 87 degrees... her heart stopped
beating. At 8:55 a bolt of lightning struck the vehicle discharging half a billion volts
of electricity and producing 60,000 amperes of current.
10:25 Its effect was threefold. First, the charge defibrillated Adaline Bowman's heart.
Second, she was jolted out of her anoxic state causing her to draw her first breath in
2 minutes. Third, based on Von Lehman's principle of electron compression in
deoxyribonucleic acid, which will be discovered in the year two thousand thirty-five,
Adaline Bowman will henceforth be immune to the ravages of time... she will never
age another day.
11:34 As the years passed, Adaline credited her unchanging appearance to a combination of a healthy diet, exercise, heredity, and good luck. - Adaline?- Miriam, hello. My god, you haven't changed a bit. Oh, that's very kind of you to say.
Fleming, you're all grown up. That's what I keep telling my mom, but she doesn't
believe me. I'm sorry we really must leave. But you... you look like sisters. You better
stop or it'll go straight to my head진짜인 줄 알잖아 그만해. - How is that possible? - A new face cream... from Paris. Made from the royal jelly of the queen bee. Okay, Darling, bye-bye now, great seeing you.
12:17 Action was required... just weeks later, when living a quiet suburban existence,
Adaline was pulled over for a minor traffic infraction위반. Ma'am it says here you were
born January 1st., 1908. That's right. That would make you... 45 years old? - Yes.
Ma'am, I'm gonna hold onto this 갖고 있을 테니까. When you come by the station house to pick it up, please bring your birth certificate. I'd be happy to 기꺼이 그리하죠, Officer, is tomorrow morning all right? Sure.
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13:46
Adaline? I'm sorry, you have the wrong person. We're from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, Miss Bowman. We'd like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind.
Why, I've done nothing wrong. I'm a good American, how dare you bother me at my
place of employment. It couldn't be helped. Ma'am. We have no record of your
residence. This way please. Nothing to worry about, Miss Bowman, we're just going to
run a few tests on you.
15:42 If anyone contacts you, tell them that I went to Europe on vacation, that I never
came back. The next time we see each other, I'll have a new identity. I'll always be
your mother, you'll just have to introduce me as your friend. - Mama, no. It has to
be this way... here. To insure the freedom and safety of herself and her daughter
Adaline vowed to keep moving, changing her name, residence, and appearance every
decade, and never to speak a word of her fate to another living soul....
51:19... My dog, I had to... - I had to put him down. - Oh, no, I'm so sorry to hear
that. You should have waited for me to contact you. Uh, Jenny, there's... There's a
reason I don't give out my address. I'm... I'm sorry, honestly.
This isn't going to
work, I'm moving. Are you serious?...
52:58 What is it? What's wrong? I'm just tired of running, of lying to good people.
Then stop.
Nobody's chasing you anymore. Anyone who has ever been suspicious is
long dead 죽은 지 오래다. You don't have to be alone forever. Don't you miss having someone to
love? It's been such a long time. It's not the same when there's no future. What are
you talkin' about, you got nothin' but future창창한 미래가 있잖아!
53:32 I mean a future together, growing old together. Without that, love is, uh... -
it's just heartbreak. It's the same for everybody. How many times has my heart
been broken? Too many. If I had your looks and your energy, I'd fall in love
tomorrow, I really would.
53:56 I did meet someone. What? Oh, on New Year's Eve, he... he jumped on my
elevator. Why didn't you tell me? Because I knew you'd look at me like that. Don't get
too excited, I, uh... I told him to leave me alone. I was horrible... cruel. Tell him
you're sorry, tell him you made a mistake. I can't, I'm leaving. You're moving to
Oregon, not Timbuktu. Come on, if you won't do it for yourself, do it for me 나를 봐서.
1:03:11 Uh, this is my dad, William. - Dad, this is... - Adaline. Jenny, actually.
Dad, you okay? I'm sorry, it's just... you look exactly like this old friend of mine that
I... Adaline Bowman. That's my mother. You joking? Really? Yeah. Oh, my
We were very close, I... I knew her in
gosh! Did you know her? - Yeah! Yeah!
London. Yeah, yes she lived there in the 60s. Right before she, ah... moved to Paris
and met my father. Incredible, what are the odds?
1:04:14 Wow, wow. The resemblance is absolutely amazing. You must hear it all the
time. For as long as I can remember. Wow! We were very close. You've just said that
already. I don't believe you never mentioned her. Oh, yeah, I must've... No, no... no,
I remember your close, close friends. How she doin'? She passed away... 6 years ago.
No, really? Oh, wow, I'm so sorry.
An extraordinary woman. Yeah, well, it runs in
the family.
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