"About time" (literal translation of the English name) is a very candid story about time travel. Although the protagonist Tim did a long-span journey for two girls he likes after learning of the superpowers that his family man possessed after he was 21 years old, but he also did it for his sister, father, Friends crossing.
This has to be said that the film theory is very basic and standard, and in my opinion is a very magical theory. Deleuze mentioned in Cinema 1 that the most basic unit of a movie is "instant", that is, it may take less than a second for the bullet to hit from here to there in reality, but it can be magnified in the movie. A few seconds or even tens of seconds, and after a few years in real life, it can be omitted as a sentence or a montage in the movie. This kind of arbitrarily zooming in and out of time periods for movie services is not possible in any other art form. Similarly, since there is the concept of time travel, it must have a lot to do with how long it takes to travel back, and at which point in time it goes back, it is difficult for many travel dramas or movies to make it so that the audience does not pay attention to it in harmony. Of course, Woody Allen's "Midnight Paris" and Robert Swink's "The Time Traveler's Wife" do better. However, "Midnight in Paris" uses the night as the unit of time, and the car that appears on time and can take the protagonist back to the golden age brings everything to a standard, as if the train station and the bus station have timetables. The “travel” component is heavier. In "Time and Space Traveler", the protagonist's behavior to travel back because he wants to change the status quo is more casual, and if you don't pay attention, it will be completely messy. However, director Richard Curtis gave me the impression that "he almost broke the jar." A quick editing of a very gorgeous subway station, the afternoon tea time for a big family on the beach, only the time when the sister’s purple car crashed as the origin, the repetition and subtle differences of key shots... everything is thoughtful, but While traversing back to the past intricately over and over again, the story is still heading in the right direction, sawing the audience back and forth, and even almost to the end, and in order to let the younger sister bid farewell to the ex-boyfriend, the audience is drawn to the audience. The party near the beginning of the film can be said to be dazzling. The 123-minute film did not have a pee point.
The British-style small and fresh pictures and scene scheduling, together with the warm gag of Billy Nye's old drama and his classic ha ha ha laugh, all make this movie full of warm and small surprises. For example, Billy Ney said at Tim’s wedding, "The three most loved men in my life, one is Uncle Desmond, one is BBKing, and the other is my son." When he said BBKing, I suddenly laughed Speak out, this Chicago blues soul singer must be the truth of Billy Nye, who loves to sing. Of course, the father in the play used the traversal function because he forgot to say this sentence at his son's wedding for the first time. This was the first tear point in the film.
The poster of the movie used the wedding photos of two people. Speaking of this messy, windy and rainy wedding, I had to be ashamed to say that I was frightened while watching the movie. In fact, I believe that most Chinese audiences are the same as me. When watching movies in which these protagonists have superpowers that can change the past, because they have been devastated by the ideas of too many bad screenwriters from mainland China and even Hollywood, they always feel that they must go back to the past. The butterfly effect will mess up the present. For example, I went back to help my friend and found that my mother died, or went back and closed a case (Tim is a lawyer) and found that his wife's temperament changed a lot, and she was no longer as gentle as before. , Wait. However, this film never made me worry about its implementation. It was as cute as a child who didn't lie. Except for a strange daughter who became a son, Tim felt that her daughter seemed to be dead, so he hurriedly traversed it again and corrected it smoothly. Most of the time, this super power of time travel can be said to be a lot of benefits. The film is indeed sentimental, but it's like Shen Congwen's "Border Town": there is no bad guy.
"Time and Space Traveler" made me feel funny at the beginning. It may be that when I was a child, the star master holding the moonlight box and yelling Poroparami was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but in general, the film’s Although the gimmick is not novel, its prominent place is still very strong. Just like Matisse said that a few kilograms of paint is a few kilograms of paint. The film is on the line of Tim’s father’s family relationship, regardless of the lines, the previous foreshadowing and other details. Work hard. With that said, I have to mention the translation problem mentioned at the beginning of this article: this is not just a love story. "In fact, from another perspective, a time-traveler who retired from cancer at the age of 50 just wanted to play table tennis with his son a few more times." Then the father and son traveled back to their son's 17-year-old to play table tennis together. The father also told his son a way to be happier: live it every day, and then try it again. The first time we were nervous and worried, we couldn't notice the beauty of this world, but the second time...you can feel it.
It's like you want to write the words as neatly as possible after knowing the answer to the test paper.
Or some people will use superpowers to go back to the past to meet Dickens, to personally experience major historical events, to experience the true golden age, but some people choose to steadily give others happiness, dignity, joy, and enjoy it.
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