I just watched the movie About Time (2013) starring Dohmnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams. It was recommended by my sister as she told me it has good life lessons and made her cry and things. So I searched for the DVD for a long time and I just got it today, and straightly watching it when I got home.

Beware of spoilers!

The movie was about a guy named Tim who could travel back in time, as the men in his family line does. He used his ability to fix things that went wrong, or just slightly not perfect for him. He was doing it until 2 major events happened in his life.

First was his sister's accident. She was fighting with her guy and then got into a car crash. Tim went back in time with her sister to his teenage and make her get a better guy. It was a success attempt that her sister got a good guy (Jay, Tim's bestfriend) and evaded the accident, but when Tim got home, he saw that his little daughter was then a boy. His father, who inherited the same ability, told him that after having a son, a reckless change in the period before can change the time of making love, so that the sperm would be different and thus the baby would be different. So Tim decided to undo it to get her daughter back. Then, Tim learned that some things in life should not be changed. So Tim persuaded her sister to get a new boyfriend and mentioned Jay. From there things worked out for her sister just as it should be.

The second was his father's death. After Tim had his 2nd child, his father's cancer was getting worse. Tim told his father to repair that but it was his father's smoking habit since the time he hadn't met Tim's mother. He also said that a sexy smoker is her mother's attraction, so he couldn't possibly change that. Then Tim was accepting his father's death. Even on the day of the funeral, he's still able to come back to the past and spend time talking to him. Just some time after, her wife asked if they would have a 3rd baby for good reasons for the others. Tim was caught into a heavy contemplation because if he decided to have the baby, he wouldn't be able to return back and meet his past father ever again. It was a short moment until Tim said yes. And just before her wife gave birth, he returned to a quality time of him and his father and said to him that it's a goodbye. He kissed his father and his father took him to a memorable childhood day. They enjoyed their last moments together and Tim let him go.


At the end of the movie, Tim stopped using time travel and learned a valuable life lesson about time:

"We’re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride".

We can't travel back in time. We can't fix things to make the present better. We can't evade someone precious' death and enjoy more time with them. We don't know how much time we have left doing what we've been able to do, with the people we love. And yet we still spend our time worrying about unnecessary things that it blocked the present; our senses, our feelings, everything. We missed all the small details that we can enjoy.

"Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum".



When we get in a fight with someone we love and let the anger, the irrational thoughts take over; we forgot that we don't know how much time left we have with them. Can you imagine fighting everyday with your brother/sister/mom/dad/girlfriend/boyfriend/best friend, and 10 years from now how would you see that. I imagined living apart from my family when I have my own, and with this stinky attitude of mine I wouldn't be too satisfied about my past. Maybe we're not mature enough to see through that but we're back to the fact that time changes us. We don't really know if we'd just forget those moments or demand those moments back. Back to the quotes above.

What about you?


I hope you watch the movie as well because it's a valuable 2 hours to upgrade someone's life.