Not thinking about the past, not afraid of the future

Sven 2022-03-20 09:01:19

A very touching warmth and healing movie. When Tim could not decide whether to abandon his father or welcome the third baby, and he cried when he went back to the past to meet his father for the last time. It feels like we must be determined to abandon some of the past when we are going to the future. The hint may not only be family affection. The choice between is like saying "The best way to forget a person is to like another person", I think it is not like saying "In order to welcome the person in the future, we must first make up our mind to abandon the unhappy past." This may be what Mofei told me before, "Don't think about the past, don't think about the future." Abandoning the past glory or unbearable, happy or sad stories, to be able to beautifully welcome my own future.
I feel that if we meet the right person, we will always feel that what we do is wrong at the beginning, and that we do everything wrong, so we keep thinking about it all over again, and keep thinking of revise's words and deeds until it is perfect. But as the relationship develops, we don't need to do it all over again. We do everything right. I think the film does not describe the quarrels and unpleasant scenes in the lives of the two people except for Mary's repeated selection of clothes. I want to say that time will finally bury all the unhappiness if u find the right one.
Recently, I have just walked out of a fruitless relationship, and it has been a long time since I was affected by a person's every move. The process is very complicated. Every day, the mood is like the sin function fluctuates with his smile or tiredness. So someone special makes every single day special, "Tomorrow is like chocolate candy in a box. What it tastes like is full of imagination". I was wondering whether we could continue to make a difference in our lives without this special person. After many stories have happened, I still decided to leave his feelings silently and forget about him who was crushed by me. I am afraid that I can continue to walk on my path of finding true love.
There are no subtitles in the movies I watched in the United States, many lines I didn’t understand, many jokes, and I didn’t get the point, but I just wanted to say, let’s live fully every extraordinary and ordinary day.

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  • [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.