About Time

There is no doubt in my mind that we will be able in the future travel in time. It can happen when we finally would understand that the time is just our concept and everything happens simultaneously. Like the bubbles rise and burst so do our souls, physical lives and universes. When we shall mount these powers like the main protagonist of this wonderful movie, young man named Tim, we have to be careful like him. If we will not conduct our travels in love, with kindness and acceptance, we can make mistakes like him, when he found after particular travel that his child was a boy and not the girl he left home. This and other contemplations were going through my mind throughout two thirds of the movie and I thought it was boring. I do not like stories about dysfunctional people ( these days perhaps 95 percent of the new movies are like that), but something was telling me that this was not such a movie. All came clearer in the morning after, when I remarked something about this movie to my wife while we were still in the bed. My wonderful wife told me her very different outlook. She liked it very much. She said that she liked all characters, because they loved each other, accepted each other, they were kind and trying to help each other. I realized that in this moving story there were only protagonists, not even one antagonist, trickster, bad ass, or whatever you would call such person. She pointed at the main character, shy young man who was even afraid to kiss the girl he liked, but learned through his travels to be self confident, nice, loving and compassionate. As the story went, he used his travels to concentrate on helping not just himself, but others, especially his troubled sister. Something like that is quite extraordinary in our country, as my wife said. The father is already on the other side, but still hanging around so they can travel in time together with his son to their favorite beach, when he was a young kid. The spectrum of such unselfish family members is enriched by the lovely uncle who maybe is not lucid anymore, but he is still cute, loving and compassionate. Well, the movie is situated in London in the United Kingdom, and the only unsympathetic people in the very short segment are prejudiced American parents visiting their daughter Mary and the future son in law Tim. This ten years old movie has through them only a glimpse of what we see now, growing divisions, prejudices, over-judgements and growing mutual hate in our society which can burry as all. I hope not. This subtle movie ( as my wife classified it) is one of those maybe showing the other, better way.

Is peace different in an altered time or place? One lesson learned in "About Time" is to enjoy the moment, that is, to live as if you came back to this day from the future to sustain despite all of its chaos. Wise tradition has always taught us that the special place, the meeting of a future lover, for instance, would be determined by fate intertwined to the people involved-their choices; the love invested on this other person. Tim Lake(Domhnall Gleeson) has this displacement occur, very suddenly, as he is young, and it overwhelms him. Tim can also travel back in time. His first crush, or heart interest is Charlotte, a friend of Tim's sister Kit Kat(for Kaitlyn). Charlotte(Margot Robbie) remains youthful and all the advances are threaded gingerly but innocently. Charlotte has one idea, and being revisited, in time, has yet, another plan. There is maturity steeped in Tim's ability to go into a closed closet and employ time-travel. Charlotte has taught Tim that although Tim is righteous and seeks love and marriage, the 'special person'-the one on the other side of the play jig may have fickle daydreams and unachievable steadfastness as a dimension. Tim's family lives in Cornwall and are upper class, and live off of a lake, in a large home. The Lake family are all imbued with a special nurturing, that humility which seeks wisdom about the sanctity of other people. As a result, Tim's father James Lake(Bill Nighy) is able to make understood that: "...all men in the (Lake) family have an ability to time travel." James also makes Tim understand that any ethereal joy must come from quality pursuits and mindful ambitions. Kit Kat, Tim's sister is awesome too. She makes errors but she has maturity even as a party girl. Mary Lake, Tim's mother is strong but whimsical, and forwards comments that are brash but inclusive, and especially these ideas are supportive. The real histrionics come from Mary(Rachel McAdams) the girl that Tim loses because of his prioritized time-traveling. These sequences pose a question over sound conventions; How much does circumstance control inevitableness, or who we become? There's a strange mood of separation, a sterility; these are the same people but some don't know Tim, really-are these unprecedented attitudes or possessed beings? There is a brilliant single stroke mantra piano tune, 'Spiegel Im Spiegel' (mirror in the mirror) by Arvo Part, which accompanies this bicameral adventure, of connecting points of ambiguous denouments. Be very careful, do not listen to 'Spiegel Im Spiegel' if you are a depressive. This simple tuneful repeat will overcome your lungs with heaving, aching, chasms. When going down this mournful lonesome hallway the whole of the movie is collected in this guiding track-this penchant for living through one another or in shifted states in obsession or handy-man tailoring is a sifting of casual sensebilities. Mary and Tim play off each other cathartically so that we are engrossed in a suspense ethos of first love being wrought in worry, in deliberation. Is it possible that the wrong thing said or implied could ruin this romance? If looking on, living a fantasy in your head, or if your like Tim, have real people to love, to negotiate with, then haven't "About Time's" concluding altruisms always been known to us? Frantically culling our sensations to be rid of distractions. "About Time" has actors from all different English speaking countries. It was directed by Richard Curtis, and, if you liked 'Spiegel Im Spiegel' there is a classical music CD titled 'Echoes Of Time' featuring violinist Lisa Batiashvili. This has 'Spiegel Im Spiegel' as well as other melancholic ruminations and a moody nocturne by Shostakovich and it also has the V&V by Giya Kancheli.

I came across this movie because it was mentioned in a book I was reading. I was so happy to learn of it. It was a great movie, very sweet and heartwarming. A little slow to start, but stick with it, it will be so worth it.

We watch this movie at least once a year. It is so beautifully done, funny and full of heart and truth.It really is a masterpiece. Domhal Gleason and Bill Nighy are perfection and the supporting cast engaging and amazing. I highly recommend!!

This is definitely another movie with a really neat story line. I wish we had the capabilities to do what he did!

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Il s'agit d'un bon film qui aurait pu tombé dans beaucoup de travers mais sans s'en sort merveilleusement bien. Les acteurs sont très bons et la bande son parfaite.Je recommande, un excellent film feelgood qui n'est pas cucu et qui a le mérite de faire rire et réfléchir.

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je ne l'avais pas dans ma vidéothèque, de plus il mérite ( pour moi ) d'être acheter ne serait ce que pour remercier les acteurs.

Ho gia visto questo film ma volevo avere il cd per rivederlo quando voglio. Forse la migliore commedia inglese degli ultimi anni (insieme love actually l amore per davvero) con attori straordinari per la regia, con dei comprimari bravissimi e per la storia bellissima. Per chi ancora si innammora delle favole.