ABOUT TIME is about kindness and love and impossible things. What could be better?
"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." Tim, from ABOUT TIME
Actors Domhnall Gleeson and Bil Nighy in time-travel mode.
It's not that I was in ill humor when we sat down to watch ABOUT TIME last night. The cooler days had stalked off, leaving us with temperatures heading up the thermometer (the old, analog kind) and I could feel my energy waning. Then the mango slices had to be rescued from the floor, washed and eyeballed (yes, it IS that kind of a home) while the cranky voices in my head found fault with things that don't even exist. All that evaporated with this story, for which I now have great affection, introducing us to kind, loving people who live quirky lives in quiet ways and have tea on the beach next to their Cornwall home every day no matter what the weather. You may more easily find yourself swallowed by this Richard Curtis work if you remember the phrase, "the willing suspension of disbelief." It is fiction, possibly fairy tale, taken as such, taken as antidote to millennial cynicism, narcissism, rejection of magic as one of the impossible things that happens.
By the movie's end I was refreshed, restored and reminded that the high and happy road is never a wrong choice. Happiness IS a choice. Uninvited, it will not likely come and sit by your side for ever and ever. Make room for it, expect it and set out the trail of cake (not bread) crumbs to lure it closer. Life is about what we do in spite of everything. It may be a test, we can't be sure. Pretend that it is. ABOUT TIME offers us a map, one that may take us where we want to go. It charmed me, lifted me out of the doldrums, if that is what they were, by my ears. Perhaps I could watch clips of this every night instead of the news.
I came across this movie last fall on a dark rainy day and I must say it brought a tear to my eye. I love Bill Nighy and thought this was such a touching movie. Yes happiness IS a choice and you are so right that no matter what we CAN make that choice.
Kerry - Hello, I'm so happy to see you. Frode the Elf sends his regards. I agree with all you said. Bill Nighy is completely fine (did you see his BBC spy mini-series?) The in-spite-of-ness. I recently thought about hermit crabs, now I find myself seeing chosen happiness as such a shell, one into which we fit ourselves and find a home where good can prevail. xo
Elsewhere - You may not know the work of a Welsh artist, Jackie Morris, http://www.jackiemorris.co.uk/blog/ who does the most remarkable hares and has a number of books in print. She is on FB, if that is an easy way to access her. And anyone familiar with black dogs needs this movie, trust me. AND Bill Nighy. xo
Kass - Thank you, most humbly, thank you. And you do need to find this movie. After we watched it and sat in wonder at how our states of mind had been transformed, my son found it at Amazon for $8.00 and it arrived by 9 the next morning. Thought of you as I fixed dinner last night, hoped you have been singing. xo
Elsewhere - Things seem in good order. We may have to ponder the matter of Bill Nighy a bit longer. Perhaps we will still be here when one can download holograms, have them over for tea and such. There has been a sort of hare festival among artists in Wales. Wonderful gallery shows. The felting artist, Celestine and the Hare(!) has recently shown photos of a new piece. Her FB page does not require friend status to read. What is your Belgian Hare's name? xo
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“i want to think
again of dangerous
and noble things.
I want to be light
and frolicsome.
i want to be improbable
beautiful and
afraid of nothing
as though I had
WINGS.”
-- Mary Oliver
"The whole of life lies in the verb seeing."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(1881 - 1955)
16 comments:
I came across this movie last fall on a dark rainy day and I must say it brought a tear to my eye. I love Bill Nighy and thought this was such a touching movie. Yes happiness IS a choice and you are so right that no matter what we CAN make that choice.
This looks wonderful -- I missed it when it came out, I think, and I so look forward to watching it. Thank you!
Kerry - Hello, I'm so happy to see you. Frode the Elf sends his regards. I agree with all you said. Bill Nighy is completely fine (did you see his BBC spy mini-series?) The in-spite-of-ness. I recently thought about hermit crabs, now I find myself seeing chosen happiness as such a shell, one into which we fit ourselves and find a home where good can prevail. xo
Elizabeth - A movie to change the way we walk, see, think. I'd love to hear your report once you've seen it. xo
I will look for it! I need it, I think.
Also that great picture of a hare, that showed in the clip.
And Bill Nighy.
"... the cranky voices in my head found fault with things that don't even exist."
"Life is about what we do in spite of everything."
Your words, oh, your words!...and
I've got to find this movie.
Elsewhere - You may not know the work of a Welsh artist, Jackie Morris, http://www.jackiemorris.co.uk/blog/ who does the most remarkable hares and has a number of books in print. She is on FB, if that is an easy way to access her. And anyone familiar with black dogs needs this movie, trust me. AND Bill Nighy. xo
Kass - Thank you, most humbly, thank you. And you do need to find this movie. After we watched it and sat in wonder at how our states of mind had been transformed, my son found it at Amazon for $8.00 and it arrived by 9 the next morning. Thought of you as I fixed dinner last night, hoped you have been singing. xo
movie is being downloaded by neighbour as we speak.
the hares of Jackie... aaawwwww.... I sent her some pictures of my Belgian Hare for inspiration.
So that just leaves Bill Nighy...
Elsewhere - Things seem in good order. We may have to ponder the matter of Bill Nighy a bit longer. Perhaps we will still be here when one can download holograms, have them over for tea and such. There has been a sort of hare festival among artists in Wales. Wonderful gallery shows. The felting artist, Celestine and the Hare(!) has recently shown photos of a new piece. Her FB page does not require friend status to read. What is your Belgian Hare's name? xo
... Borat... sorry ;-)
Elsewhere - Borat. And now I've seen his beauty. xo
And I'm 15 minutes into ABOUT TIME.
Sigh...
thanks
I love this movie! And now I want to see it again. Thank you!
Elsewhere - Hooray! You are so welcome. xo
Kathleen - Hello! It really is just the best, isn't it? Enjoy and thank you. xo
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