There are many slots, but it’s still a good story

Brett 2022-03-21 09:01:22

"A man able to travel in time" is finally an unconventional setting, but it is rare to have a different feeling when shooting. Different from the sad fate in "Butterfly Effect" and the silent warmth in "Time Traveler's Wife", this story is lively but not frivolous, warm but deep in connotation.

But in fact, I don’t think it’s good enough to give this movie a score:
(Remind, there are a lot of spoilers below)

I don’t think the heroine is pretty, -1
is a good heroine, that’s the kind of heroine that you don’t seem to be at first glance. Beautiful, I look at it, but I feel more beautiful in my heart. +1

Seeing that the male protagonist resolutely travels back to save for the cause of his friend, so I missed the female protagonist, and I feel that she is going to fall into the stereotype again, -1
can You see

that the male protagonist travels back for the female protagonist , stubbornly grabbing love, and feels that it is also a bit interesting, +1 you think the male and female protagonist is sweet and sweet from now on, I will go, really rejected the first love of the male protagonist at the beginning Appeared again, -1
Well, the two protagonists' active attacks ended in embarrassment, which suppressed the restless little flames in the male protagonist's heart. I couldn't help but smile +1,

but as expected, first love I took the initiative to hook up with the male protagonist, -1; moreover, do you hook up with the male protagonist? You are at the door of the man’s house, as if you can go to the spring night for a moment. -1
Oh, sorry, this is a warm inspirational movie, not an erotic movie, this is the warm little touch. Think about it, in reality, which man can pass the hurdle of first love so easily? Isn't it realistic? +1

Okay, I know that the male protagonist will seduce you, but you ran back and proposed to the female protagonist right now. What do you mean? This is the logic of the gods and horses? -1
However, if you look back, you can actually understand it again. The so-called true love, most of the time, at that moment, you suddenly understand what you care about most in your heart, and you would rather abandon some others than what you can't let go of. +1

……

So, in general, the story is that every time I want to say something good, I suddenly feel a sudden change, incorrigible, and then turn back from restraint when I always think that it has fallen into the cliché again. So it feels very difficult to score.

But it must be admitted that this story really hit my tears in the end, and finally decided that it was a good story. However, given that the current score is higher than I expected, it is Samsung.

It must also be said that I personally feel that the translation of the title of the mainland version is not as good as the Hong Kong version or the Taiwan version. Of course, the original English text is closer to the core of the story, About Time. This is a story that gives people thinking about the connotation and meaning of time, rather than a purely love story.
A literary film that borrows the shell of science fiction, so there is no need to entangle the problem of space-time logic.

PS: It turns out that this is the second time the heroine Rachel has fallen in love with someone who can travel through time. Isn’t it a familiarity? Although if it weren't for watching the cast later, I didn't recognize her as the original heroine of "Time Traveler's Wife". Because I have always remembered that the heroine of "Time Traveler's Wife" is so beautiful...
PS2: The hero is so familiar. After looking through the information for a long time, I found out that he had acted in the second season of "Black Mirror".

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Extended Reading

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.