"Time Traveler"

Jettie 2022-04-20 09:01:16

The narration at the beginning of the movie made me feel a little dull, incomprehensible, and even a little boring, but since the male protagonist met his first love and resolutely chose to propose, he began to change his mind. The first love was the beauty he could not have wished for when he was young, and it was still glorious after many years. He still had feelings for her, but he knew exactly what he wanted.

Later, when the male protagonist's father died, he went back to the past to visit him. His father soon realized that the male protagonist came from later, and easily chatted with him about his funeral, because his father knew that the male protagonist came from the past. If you miss him, you will come to see him. Until the male protagonist wanted a third child, he visited his father for the last time before his wife was about to give birth. The father noticed it and asked him, this is the last time, right? The male protagonist said, well, because of having a new child. Then they went back further into the past together, running by the sea again. I don't know why, but this is the most uncomfortable place for me, and I cried out with a wow.

Slowly I understood why the beginning of the movie said that their family always repeats the ordinary life every day, drinking tea, walking by the sea... Maybe it was the constant return to the past before my father died, even if it was an ordinary day, always It is also precious.

And after watching this movie, I had a dream. It may be because of the sudden death of my grandfather, so I have not been able to really come out. Even in the past few years, when my family talked about him, I just couldn't open my mouth. I felt that I might not be able to stop crying in the next second. That day, I dreamed that I was back before he died. The room was filled with the kind of golden, warm sunlight that came in from the kitchen. I asked him, will I give you a hug? He said, good. After waking up, I sat on the bed for a long time, and I didn't feel anything in my heart, just empty, that kind of endless empty feeling, but from the next day, every time I think about this dream, I cry, it's that kind of Very sad to miss and regret.

While this movie made me have illusions, it also made me feel that life was originally beautiful, even if it was busy, even if it was a lot of trouble at times, it was very precious. Rather than the ability to go back in time, what we need is the courage to live each day well.

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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.