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I'm definitely an Amy Adams fan, but it was her movie 'Leap Year' that solidified that and also 'The Arrival', but watching her in this movie, well she's a great actress and the plot of this movie is regarding a woman psychologist named Dr. Anna Fox, played excellently by Adams, who has a breakdown and she doesn't leave her house for almost a year, as she cocoons herself with classic films, food delivery and a steady diet of prescription drugs and red wine. She the witnesses a murder and the movie moves on from there. I love the extreme 'Amy/Anna' close-ups of her face in the foreground. I would suspect that the mixture of substances and isolation makes Anna's perspective unreliable from the start, which means the title cards indicating days of the week are useful only to the audience. Then again, who among us hasn't felt like time is a flat circle over the past year or so? I would watch this movie again. There is a part in the film Dr. Fox remembers a car accident and since part of the movie is in apartment, so is the car. Interesting scene.

Taylor Russell was quite an actress in this film, playing Zoey Davis, an inquisitive university student who finds her courage in participating in an interesting concept, the Escape Room. It's easy to rethink whether you wish to participate in an Escape Room, but basically it has a sort of a "Saw" feeling to it, which is tantamount to an adrenaline rush you get from both, except as you watch each character connect with each other in the Escape Room, you allow yourself to immerse in each excellent dialog, who they are and eventually the plot. If you haven't seen this movie, it's not THAT great a plot, but don't get me wrong, I'm paying attention to the several plot twists and turns and honestly, if I was stuck in these rooms with twists and turns to solve overall puzzles, it would be a fight to live in spite of how the rooms are designed to kill all of the players at one stage or the next. Also, the other actors in this movie are less well-known, except Molly Parker, who I've seen in other movies and basically she has no emotional depth in her acting, not like the other players like Jason Walker (Jay Ellis - Insecure) is among the other players in the room with her that is the complete opposite of Zoey, cut throat and unapologetically consumed with survival.... I give this a 7/10.

I found this film very clever, the plot surrounding the story of a young woman named Adaline Bowman, played by actress Blake Lively, who was born on New Year's Day in San Francisco in the year 1908 and after a certain accident in a thunder storm, loses the ability to age, so Adaline remains in her late 20s, even as the world advances around her. It actually causes problems for her, as she can't get too attached to her lovers, friends and has to change her name and identity every ten years. One day, an ex-classmate, now a lot older, recognized her and freaked out and sometime in the late 1950s, the FBI started to hound her because they think she's a spy, but over many decades of remaining young, she keeps albums filled with photos of pet pooches that have died; her daughter, played by Ellen Burstyn, grows up to become an old woman. The good news for Adeline, is she can't die and she'll always be harrowingly beautiful, except the day her past gets caught up with her. I love the forest scenes and how the director's were able to re-create a 60s scene and how they found an actor that looks like a young Harrison Ford to play her boyfriend William. I appreciate the library scenes and the dialog was great. This is the second time watching the movie.