Over again, the changeable and the unchangeable

Carroll 2022-03-22 09:01:20

I like a person and dare not say, I am afraid that I will be embarrassed to meet in the future; I dare not do something if I want to do something, if I fail, I will lose more. How many people missed it because of how many things were missed, and then they didn't have the chance to grasp it again and were alone in melancholy. Or you know that some people must miss something, but you still regret that you didn't say something personally when you left. It's like Tim crossing for the first time, kissing the girl when the New Year's bell rang. This moment may be meaningless for the future, but the present is indeed the most correct choice.
If he didn't have the ability to cross, would he have the courage to knock on Charlotte's door that summer, and would he dare to talk to Mary embarrassingly. When Tim was sitting in the exhibition hall waiting for Mary day by day, he looked for words with bored eyes time and time again, and persevered in asking about the time and place of the party. You saw his determination to find love again, but if he didn’t overthrow it. What will happen to the ability to come.
Of all our losses and misses, how much is because we are out of reach, and how much is because we are afraid of not reaching out. And if everything can be done again, where will we be now.
After Tim and Mary are together, the two are like glue, which is enviable, but when there is only her in your world, you only know love, but you don't know the weight of love. So when Charlotte's invitation appeared, he suddenly realized that all my desires exist because of whom.
Tim went back to change his sister's fate, and found that his child had changed. In fact, the original impact should have been greater, because if Kit Kat doesn't know Jimmy, then Tim won't know Charlotte. Of course, if you don't know first love, it won't affect the fate of Mary and later. But don't forget, it was because of Charlotte's ambiguous suggestion that Tim found out how much he loved Mary and proposed to marry him. Therefore, while changing his sister's fate, his fate should have changed even more.
His father's wisdom made his death seem less heartbreaking, perhaps because of Tim's ability to go back to see him at any time. So when Mary said that he wanted to have another child, that was when the father would really leave. Tim's choice is not so much between father and child, as it is between keeping his memories and moving on. Maybe his father is the memory he wants to keep, but he also knows what the right choice is.

Highlights:
1. This is the third time that Rachel McAdams has acted as the lover of the time traveler. The previous two were the wife of Eric Bana in "The Time Traveler's Wife" and the fiancée of Owen Wilson in "Midnight Paris".
2. Zooey Deschanel was originally scheduled to play Mary, but withdrew due to a schedule conflict and was replaced by Rachel McAdams.
3. As Domhnall Gleeson said in the movie, his mother is indeed named Mary.

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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.