It’s About Time: Movie Review
It was time (with its title possibly having a double meaning) is a brilliant parody of time. The cinema, through movie more or less convincing, he has often wondered about the relationship that human beings have with the passage of time between the need to stay young to delude themselves that the end is not imminent and the need to freeze beautiful memories.
The Italian movie It was time it fits into this broad cinematographic vein that makes time the object of analysis through various cinematographic genres and sub-genres. From The lake house of time (2006) and premonition (2007) – both with Sandra Bullock – up to a Qhe issue of time (2013) and others Interstellar (2014), the seventh art has realized that the hours seem to get out of hand, especially today, especially with our frenetic rhythms. So much so that there are those who – almost as if he wanted to regain possession of a piece of the day spent entirely at work – sleep less to be able to devote himself to all those things that he cannot do during the day. Yes, this is happening too!
Plot of Netflix movie
In It was time (which is currently at the top of Netflix’s ten most watched films) the character of Edward Leo his name is Dante, like the Great Poet who traveled between worlds at the very moment he was (a bit like the protagonist of this film) in the middle of life’s journey when he found himself in a dark forest. Surely Dante Alighieri’s rhythms weren’t exhausting but he didn’t miss his worries!
A grotesque comedy with dramatic overtones
Alessandro AronadioI’m there; The Golden Men…) shoots a comedy that has the nuances of drama. The protagonist, after going to bed (the night before he had celebrated his 40th birthday after an exhausting day), wakes up one year older. His partner Alice (also this name, in my opinion, is not accidental) is pregnant but he doesn’t remember anything. Dante works tirelessly for an important company; Alice is an illustrator, they love and respect each other very much.
Dante is under a spell: he seems unable to stop the hands of the clock because in the blink of an eye he finds himself aged by a year and not just when he falls asleep. So things start to change quickly and he doesn’t live them. The daughter grows up, the relationship with Alice (an excellent one Barbara Ronchi) is in crisis so much that her partner is dating another man, a certain Omar (Raz Degan), his friend Valerio (Mario Sgueglia) falls ill with cancer, the father (Massimo Wertmüller) has senile dementia. And he can’t do anything. The only thing that always stays the same is that pancake that is made for him on his birthday. And this too is no coincidence in my opinion, because pancakes – which we imported from the USA together with the frenetic pace of increasingly annihilating work – are American desserts that are traditionally eaten for breakfast.
A well thought out reflection
It was time in short, it is a well-thought-out reflection (excellent editing by Robert DiTanna and brilliant the screenplay by Alexander Aronadio And Renato Sannio) on work rhythms and the impossibility of enjoying affection in our talkative society, in which the protagonist has been stuck so as not to repeat the same mistakes as his father. The film – which is the remake of the film ‘As if there were no tomorrow’ (2011, you can find it on the various rental platforms) – gives his own personal response to problems that are increasingly felt today. To be seen. Maria Ianniciello