"About time" throws out a special function from the beginning: the men of our family can travel through time and space.
But what came slowly was that the overall situation of the world could not be reversed, and there was no butterfly effect---for example, I could not assassinate Hitler. This kind of time travel, like the Chinese phasic arithmetic, can tell fortunes, but cannot change fate. The so-called: I will help you calculate your future, but disasters are inevitable. It just makes you feel better and accept it more easily.
Under this special function, I told a warm love story, a warm father-son relationship, brother-sister relationship, just like other movies that Curtis participated in, it is warm and moving, but it is just right, not yet and indiscriminate.
I really like this love in the film. It is a very true love between the two. In fact, it should be like this, equal and ordinary, and its love is not worthy of outsiders.
Seeing my dad say that what he did most when he traveled back home was reading, Dickens read it three times. In this situation where you can travel through time and space, but you are limited in what you can do, there is really not much you can do. In fact, think about it, if I have this ability, most of my going back is reading and watching movies. I once imagined that if time could stop and give me three to five years to read, watch a movie, and then start again, it would be great.
Later, the director sublimated the plot. Tim never used his special power again. Father's sublimation of this supernatural function is to look at every day with a positive eye (slightly chicken soup), and Tim goes further than his father. This turnaround is very good. In fact, it is tortuous to tell each audience whether there is the ability to travel through time and space, and the facts in life will not be too different. But you can have different attitudes.
This actually coincides with Chinese fate: you can't change your destiny (the eight characters are already set), but you can change your attitude toward destiny.
I love the dialogue written by Curtis, whether it is "Four Weddings and One Funeral", "Notting Hill" or "True Love First", he can always use simple words to create amazing effects, which can be regarded as an excellent representative of British movies. Like in this film, the male lead stammered after calling the female lead, saying that
this mobile phone was my most broken thing, but now it is my most precious item.
The reason why the heroine proposed to have another child is that if one of these two is smart and the other is not so smart, then having three or two other little fools can be a front line.
The male protagonist and the female protagonist went to bed for the first time. They didn’t understand the bra that was driving forward, so they crossed back and started again. He crossed three times in the first night, from a green-headed boy to a veteran who can stand for 300 rounds and roll the sheets to the ground. Satisfy yourself.
There are a lot of these clever little cleverness in Curtis' movies. In Curtis's writings, both successful people and losers have a kind heart, are very aware of their own happiness and misfortune, and like to laugh at themselves. After all, no one's life is perfect, it is impeccable and cannot be mocked.
Later, Tim traveled back to see his dead father. He really lay on the sofa and read Dickens. Read it impromptuly to his son. Then the father and son went for a walk. At that time, the father was still young and Tim was still a teenager. This is my favorite scene in this film.
The heroes and heroines are not handsome men and women, but they are all temperamental. This is something that ordinary beautiful and good figure actresses lack. There are many such actors in British movies.
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