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Will a life without regrets lead to happiness?
Evelyn 2022-04-21 09:01:25
I don't know why this film is rated so high, maybe it makes up for many of people's shortcomings in reality! The mistakes that have been made are changed by going back in time, making the impossible possible. It is impossible to have no regrets in life. Existence is reasonable. It is not necessary to make up for all regrets to be truly complete. It is said that people cannot step into the same river twice, so in the face of this failure, what we have to do is to learn lessons, accumulate experience, and avoid the same mistakes next time. Instead of constantly going back in time, trial and error, to see which works best. How can life give us so many opportunities for trial and error? Going back in time constantly, regrets can be made up again and again, what else in life allows us to remember the experience of a lifetime? It seems that all errors can be corrected to make everything flawless. When I first started watching this film, I thought that this state of life seemed to be pretty good, but the protagonist goes back in time again and again, avoids all possible mistakes, and strives to achieve perfection, which makes people feel suffocated in the development of more and more plots. ! Is a life without regrets a life? This kind of idea is really good, but hasn't he learned from the experience in this time and again? Every time a thorny problem cannot be solved, it is reversed and reversed. What impressed me the most was that when the hero met Charlotte and greeted her, why did he bring the topic to "gay" again and again? The first mistake has already been made, and obviously he doesn't want to talk about this topic and cause unnecessary misunderstanding, but why does he still think of "gay" every time he does it? In fact, this approach of the male protagonist is deceptive to some extent. But on the whole, although the idea of going back in time is not desirable, the positive main line of the movie is still worthy of recognition. ps: The bgm of the movie is pretty good!
Extended Reading
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[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]
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[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.