Eternity

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Karalyn 1d Cute but dragged on a bit See more Celluloid Hero 1d It's taken me an eternity to finally sit down and write a review about this movie. The best way to evaluate Eternity is to view it through the lens of your own life. The movie is a combination of things: Creative, entertaining, thought-provoking, and ultimately frustrating, The problem is the film's premise, which lies at the core of each character's decisions and actions. Who would you choose to spend eternity with after you die? Would it be your first love and first husband who died young in the Korean War after 2-1/2 years of marriage, or would it be your second husband who you've been happily together with for 67 years raising a family and caring for each other into your golden years through good times and bad? All the characters enter the afterlife in the happiest state of their lives. All of them are young, but still maintain the memories and identities formed by their life experience. For Joan (played by Elizabeth Olsen), it means she's a 90-year-old woman whose soul suddenly occupies her 20-year-old body. Eternity proclaims to pose an "impossible choice" for Joan. And that's where the movie fails based on the life I occupy. Values matter. Decisions matter. How your decisions effect others matter. The film takes the audience for a joy ride filled with twists and turns based on one poor decision after another. It eventually takes us to a place that will satisfy most people (again, depending on your own values). . It leaves us with a lesson on what defines real love and identity. But here's the problem. It also diminishes what we've learned in life, and raises the question of what does your life mean if you're so willing to toss away the most meaningful part of it in order to try something that may or may not be better (and to be stuck with that decision for eternity). Is the choice Joan faces really "impossible?" Would a 90-year-old woman who has lived a wonderful life with her soulmate actually need to learn the lesson of what constitutes "real love?" The idea that Joan anguishes over who to choose and the calamity resulting from her decisions marginalizes marriage, family, love, and the meaning of her life. It's not believable that Joan would have to endure her journey to discover the truth unless her character was selfish, clueless, and unempathetic (which is how she comes off, whether that's intentional or unintentional by the director), SPOILER ALERT: The fact she sleeps with another man without guilt or consequences is not a great message regardless of her epiphany about "real love." I'm incredibly lucky to be married to the most loving, caring, amazing woman I ever met. However, if I had a wife like Joan, I'd dump her in the afterlife after the first sign of hesitation in choosing me and then enter the eternity marked "Orgy World" to make up for the 67 years I lost. See more Spencer P Apr 8 A cute, thoughtful, and perfectly cast romcom set in a new vision of the afterlife, Eternity is a really good date night movie about thinking ahead in your love (after)life. See more John Mar 29 I enjoyed it and it did end up as I expected it would, but got there with a different route than I anticipated. See more Isaac Mar 24 First romance movie and I liked it See more lester Mar 21 very touching movie with a decent twist witty dialogue See more Read all reviews

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