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About Time
2013 · Film · 123 min
Directed by Richard Curtis
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
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Selective memory. Plenty of movies do not require conflict before romance. La La Land, Being Again, Silver Linings Playbook, About Time, ... plenty of others.
You may be interested in the excellent film "About Time". It has a similar, though not exactly the same, premise and conclusion.
This is basically the lesson in About Time (2013).
(I liked that movie)
I feel like we need Rachael McAdams to do a 3rd time loop movie after Time Travelers Wife and About Time, make it a trilogy.
When I was a kid, VHS home recording was a thing... so my sisters and I watched a few movies wayyyyy too many times.
The Blues Brothers Stripes Ferris Bueller's Day Off Footloose Dirty Dancing Amadeus These days, everything comes and goes from streaming. I'll watch these when they pop up again
The Expanse Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Ministry of Time Groundhog Day Dirty Harry Apocalypse Now About Time Time Bandits
I’m a book person, not a movie person. But I have so much love for the movie About Time.
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I watched the movie first, found out who wrote it, and read the book it was in.
I did love a lot the short story, and kind of got mad at "Arrival" for some of the changes it makes to the story. But. After several (SEVERAL) re watches of the movie, I got to "understand" what Villeneuve was about, and I fell in love with the movie as well.
It currently sits in probably my top 5 preferred movies to re watch (Being the others both Blade Runners, About Time & Notting Hill in no preferred order)
Children of Men - 2006 - society would fall apart without a fresh supply of humans, this movie made that very, very clear
The Discovery - 2017 - The thought that we keep doing things over in an imperceptible manner until we get it right, is haunting
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1986 - "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - It told me I could be a little less serious about things, and have more fun
About Time - 2013 - The lesson is to try to roll with whatever happens, and relax
The movie "About Time (2013)" shows a nice answer to this question. I enjoyed it a lot, so I highly recommend it
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I don't even know what kind of movie I want to watch. I would not be able to come up with a search input.
I have 2 ways of using netflix:
- pick a random movie without even reading the description (discovered some truly beautiful movies, like "About time", and many terrible ones) - scroll for 1h and then go to youtube
"What If You Could Do It All Over?" - well without the benefit of hindsight it would be exactly the same of course. Free will exists up to the time we make a choice, but that is just the weighing up of the situation. The choice itself is inevitable.
When we release a dice from our hand it could land on any face, but the face it lands on isn't truly random, it is just too hard to establish the factors which caused it. So with our choices.
A sure belief that my choices right or wrong were all I could do at the time has saved me from endless doubt and speculation. The only choices I can make are today.
I saw the film About Time recently which is based on this whole idea of going back and doing it differently - with hindsight. Whilst it was quite enjoyable, the inconsistencies caused by the idea just shouted out throughout. Life isn't and can't be like that.
You might appreciate the film About Time. Ignore the cover image which sells it short. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194499/
The cover and premise push it as a rom com, but I enjoyed the relationship between the son and father much more.
It's quite interesting when you come across a mainstream film which doesn't follow the standard structure and Tropes.
I remember watching 'About Time' in the cinema - a Richard Curtis concoction and thinking 'This did not follow the structure I thought it would follow at all'. Refreshing.
Try watching the movie About Time, from 2013. In short the main character can travel through time to visit his passing father... Until a point. Sound creepy, but actually isn't. A very wholesome movie.
I really enjoy reading books about re-living your life, I think the best two I have read are Replay by Ken Grimwood and the first fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North, very recommended.
In terms of movies also About time incidentally explored some of the same concepts.
I've never understood this logic. If say time travel is invented in year 3000. Then surely by 3050 it would be affordable for a certain segment of society. And be 3070 available for a mass market. And by 3100 available in watch form.
So shouldn't we expect there to be millions/billions of people interfering with the past. A significant percentage of which would be deliberately aiming to manipulate, destroy, communicate, affect and do all the things we expect people wouldn't.
Clearly it means either two things. 1: time travel is not possible. 2: going back in time forks the universe/space-time (About Time is a recent movie that proposes this).
If you are interested in time travel: I saw the movie "About Time" last night and it was both awesome and romantic. Perfect date movie for the geek/non-geek couple.
And now at least this discussion thread is not completely useless :-)