Tuesday, October 15, 2013
It's about time I met up with some of my buddies!
That's why I went out yesterday with my buds YK and Bry to catch a movie. (coincidentally we took off on the same day)
And the title of the movie?
About Time.
About Time starts off slow, about this british boy and his family in Britain living an idyllic life by the coast where they would have tea every day without fail by the beach and watch a movie outdoors every friday night.
His Father also gives a wicked commentary when both of them plays table tennis!
This boy, named Timmy, is rather ordinary and plain, also rather awkward in social situations. On his 21st birthday, his Father reveals to him a secret that all males in his family possess: the ability to travel back in time.
The method its seems would be to stand in a dark area, clench both fists palms down and think hard about a point of time in one's past.
This seems rather absurd but HEY its a movie :)
Hearing this, the boy proceeds to test out his power by correcting an awkward moment he made during a New Year's day event.
He soon discovers the first love of his life when 2 girls stay over with his family, one of them a gorgeous blonde whom he falls head over heels in love with. Determined to win her heart, he uses his power to woo her but to no avail. Realizing that matters of the heart are harder then one perceives it to be, he gives up and watches her leave by the end of that summer.
He moves to London and stays with a very amusing playwright, gets a job as a lawyer and goes on in his life feeling rather lonely. Until one day, together with his friend, they both attend a dinner in total darkness (some sort of new experience in dining?) and he meets the woman of his life. Her name was Mary ( and is also the name of his mother).
He gets her number and he gleefully skips back to the playwright's apartment, where he discovers that the playwright's work was ruined because an actor forgot his lines.
He decides to make the play go smoothly and uses his powers. This time the play goes smoothly and the playwright is delighted, he is delighted, BUT WAIT. It means that in this timeline, he does not attend the dinner and hence, does not meet Mary.
Either attend the dinner or the play. Faced with this dilemma, he chooses the latter and becomes depressed.
He knows Mary likes Kate Moss, so he tries to meet Mary at a Kate Moss exhibition, with seriously funny consequences.
His final break at success was when he seized the opportunity at a party to contact her, thereafter they had dinner, then followed by a long stroll back to her apartment and then a lovely time on the bed. (he used his powers several times for this!)
What happens next will be about their life together and how they cope with having a child, he didn't use his power much after that, he lead a seemingly joyous life.
His sister meets with an accident and he tries to stop it from occurring by travelling all the way back to that New Year's party but he finds that the consequence is horrible. That his child will be different because time travelling alters which sperm fertilizers the egg, meaning he can't alter past events before the birth of his child.
He realizes that travelling back in time cannot and will not fix every problem in life unlike in his younger days.
He makes the tough decision to let his sister face the accident, then help her from that point in time onwards.
Then his father is diagnosed with cancer and soon passes away which saddens him, although he can visit him any time in the past. After some time, Mary wants to have another child, so you see another dilemma presented to him here. He will have to say goodbye to his Father forever.
He does say the final farewell to his Father in the end, living the rest of his life in a very meaningful way, which was to live each day like its your worst, then using his power, live it like its the best and see the beauty of living. Then eventually, living each day and enjoying it without using his powers.
I like this movie really much, it teaches you some important things. Try to treasure your time living, also, we are all travelling in time, forwards but never backwards, something we all have in common. Because we don't have Timmy's power, we can't correct awkward situations or mistakes as much as we want to. People dream of time travel because we cannot reverse what has already been done, we want to have a second chance at doing things to get a more desirable outcome. This movie teaches you that there's no need to do so. Time travel need not be invented in future if people are able to appreciate the beauty of living in the moment, something that Timmy achieves nearing the end of the movie.
Also, this movie is full of laughs! Do catch it if you can, but do not delve to much into the technicalities of time travel, its merely a romantic, comedic and some part serious movie. Also, Rachel McAdams is so cute.
About time I signed off.
Call Of The Wild at 2:50 PM