A little bit of time goes by

Chelsey 2021-10-20 17:46:31

In the movie, his father has cancer, and his death will happen sooner or later. And if the male protagonist gives birth to the third child, he cannot travel back to before the sperm formation, because if he travels back, history will be changed, so that the third child will change, such as becoming a boy and so on. Just like when Tim returned to his sister's car accident, Tim hoped that his sister could be reborn, told her the truth about the journey, and returned to the time before giving birth to his first child, Percy, and found himself when he returned to reality. The child has become a little boy, so Tim decides to give up saving his sister for his child Percy. I'm so touched after watching it, I especially like this movie ❤

I was moved by the last inner paragraph at the end

"And in the end, I think I've learned the final lesson from my travels in time. And I've even gone one step further than my father did. The truth is I never travel back at all, not even for the day . I just try to live everyday, as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life. We are all travelling through time together, everyday of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride."

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About Time quotes

  • [Tim and Mary are in bed]

    Mary: So not such a bad day after all?

    Tim: No. It was pretty good, really. Very good day, actually, as it turns out.

    Mary: Well, that's a relief. Because it had been a very bad day, I thought I might have had to have had sex with you to make up for it.

    [she turns the light out]

    Mary: Goodnight.

    Tim: [he is lying blatantly and Mary knows it] It was a very, very bad day. It went very badly. I got fired from my job. And then I killed a man.

    [she turns the light back on]

    Mary: That is a very bad day.

    Tim: It's terrible.

    Mary: Yeah, the worst day ever. I'm so sorry.

    [they start to make love]

  • [Mary wants another baby]

    Mary: I just thought that maybe it was time for the insurance baby.

    Tim: What?

    Mary: In case one of them is really smart. We don't want the other one to feel stupid their whole life. And if we had a third one then we could have *two* happy dummies. What do you think?

    [Tim realises that once another baby is born, he will never be able to go back to a time before that]

    Tim: [voiceover] It was the toughest decision of my life. Saying "yes" to the future meant saying "goodbye" to my dad - forever.