The first possibility is that the director simply didn ' t acknowledge aging some people can still look like their in their 30 s even when they ' re in their 50 s , so perhaps the director just ignored this . I don ' t really believe this to be true , since the director put in so many details and so much respect for the audiences ' intellect that there ' s no way he overlooked this . I ' m almost 100 % certain that this is what happened . Why is this so challenging to believe ? Plus , Amy Adams is 42 now , so would probably be somewhere between the age of her character in the present and in the future . I ' d argue on that this is a classic example of overanalysing on your behalf . <| sep |> I ' d love to read the full theory ! Where can i find that ?