Revisiting after seven years

Caden 2022-04-20 09:01:16

Some miscellaneous new thoughts

After a lapse of seven years, the biggest surprise of revisiting "The Traveler in Time and Space" is that the marks that the years have polished on me have given me a lot of new feelings.

1. For example, I only remember romantic love episodes before, but now I can't help but give some attention to the family full of warmth and literary atmosphere. The whole family sits neatly in the rain with umbrellas to watch open-air movies, which is really interesting in life.

2. The setting of the movie is that all the men in this family have the ability to travel back in time and space. The father of the male protagonist, Tim, chooses to go back and read again and again. I really like this non-utilitarian way of using it. I don't see the superpower of returning to the past as regret medicine, and I don't get trapped by the obsession to reverse the future. The most important thing is that if you go back to the past with the idea of ​​doing something to the outside world again and again, the result will always be single, and there will be no accumulation, but reading is not the case. Life has a limit, but knowledge has no limit, and it is difficult to get rid of regrets with a limit, and crossing seems to give life infinity. For a long time, out of regret for wasting time, I wondered if it would be nice to turn back time. Now that I have started a new life, I finally came ashore from the long river of memories, and gradually dispelled the delusions of changing the past. However, when I think of the benefits of this superpower in seeking knowledge, I still yearn for it.

3. As I got older, I valued the qualities of kindness and altruism more and more, so I found that Tim is really a nice person. In order to save his friend's failed drama, he missed the first encounter with his lover, but he did not choose to wear it back again, and gave up his friend's drama to meet his lover, but created other opportunities to meet (every day, he went to the show where his lover was interested, too perseverance). bar). Later, when he met the girl who was in his heart for the first time again, the other party finally threw out the invitation he longed for three years ago. At this time, Tim could actually choose to go through the storm with the other party, and then use his superpower to erase his betrayal. Yes, most people will be tempted in the face of such a temptation without consequences, right?

But is there really no consequence?

In the process of watching, I often wonder, since life can be archived, will people still focus on the present and manage their life seriously? What's more, if the past can be smeared and covered again and again, and there is no cost to doing evil, will the inner beast be awakened?

But the male protagonist didn't. He has been sincere to this feeling from beginning to end, without the impurities of distraction.

4. Tim and Mary's first meeting was so beautifully designed. A brief encounter in the dark isn't just another cyber-friendship. The girl who was talking to you in the dark finally came out. She stumbled and smiled shyly at you. The light passes through the gap between the heavy curtains and hits your heart directly, like a divine revelation.

I can't forget the eyes of the heroine when she heard the hero express her deeply resonant views, that is the spark of love, and it is my favorite love development mode, that is, mutual attraction based on common detached hobbies and resonance, Only then can the two hearts really collide.

5. When I was in my junior year, I started to like green very much, and became a loyal green enthusiast. This movie is a visual feast for me. It is really comfortable to watch.

6. But there are also many preferences that have not changed, such as ordinary daily romances, such as that rainy wedding. Love the soundtrack as always, love "Mid Air" and "How long will I love u". "Mid air" is the tiny and secret joy when the seeds of hope were first buried in the heart, and "How long will I love u" is the bright and cheerful after the wish has been fulfilled. Watching them walk together and kiss goodbye in the melody of "how long will I love u" makes me feel extra light and sweet.

I turned to the Amway news I sent to my friends at that time (embarrassingly I found that the name was spelled wrong), the Amway madness has really not changed (laughs). I remember that I gave another friend Amway again during the summer vacation of my senior year. After reading it, he said, what does the name Time Traveler have to do with it? Actually, the Chinese translation of this name is really not good. The chicken soup tastes too strong, not as good as the original name "about time" , but I still remember how I understood it at the time, we are all travelers in time and space, and the years are gentle, nostalgic for every traveler who lives with heart, and gives them rich gifts.

Coincidentally, I have lost contact with these two friends now, and I was sad about it for a while, dreaming of our reconciliation once a month. But now that you are relieved, you think that life is constantly losing, but it is not. You are just saying goodbye to people and things that are not suitable for you. I will live a good life and treat the friends I have at this moment with my heart, and there will always be friends who will eat Amway in my movie (laughs).

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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.