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I’m living life like I'm doing it a second time.
Memento mori and the importance of living the way we most want to
When Tim Lake turns 21 in the film About Time, he learns about an ability that most of us would sacrifice great things for — to travel back in time.
All he has to do is go into a dark room, close his eyes, and wish for the moment in his life he wants to return to.
What a gift, to fix the moments he wished he could live through differently.
Throughout the film, he uses this newfound ability to improve his life.
He redoes a first date, calls the girl, improves his and his eventual wife’s first time sleeping together (several times, until he gets it right), saves his sister from a car crash, and lives his life as happily as he can.
However, he runs into an issue after his first child is born.
If he goes back, he erases that child, only to return to the present to have a child he’s never met, who’s grown up in an alternate timeline he didn’t experience.
His dad suggests something, a way to use the ability without erasing his children or causing other issues with the space-time continuum.
Live each day twice.
