#AboutTime (2013)
At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
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If I could time travel, would I go back and first watch #AboutTime (2013) earlier than today? I doubt it.
From a #SciFi perspective, it is nowhere near as a complex and fully exploratory treatment of time travel as one can find, and this flatly isn't a Sci-Fi movie. The closing credits have a cast list and a few crew. There's no special effects department or even a second unit. The only stage in the entire movie, indeed, seems to be the play within the movie itself (with Richard E. Grant and Richard Griffiths playing themselves playing parts).
This is a love story, on several levels and for several characters.
In that respect, #BillNighy's performance, looked at retrospectively (I did rewind.) in light of the reveal near the end, is spot on.
It's a who's who of famous actors, with #RachelMcAdams of course, and pre-franchised #VanessaKirby and #MargotRobbie both with posh London accents.
The only gripe is that there's not a steady camera shot in the entire thing.
"Sometimes I say to myself that the storyteller is Death's secretary"
Most well-known for his excellent "Ways of Seeing" TV series and books—amongst other works—John Berger also wrote and presented 'About Time'.
It's a collection of meditations on time, death, story telling, the nature of being, the Present and Berger's humanism, as always, shines through.
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