Like seeing an old friend.

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2017)

I'm a film buff. I love 2001, Tokyo Story, Paths of Glory. My tastes range from classic cinema to modern drama and action, but most of the time rom-coms fail me. I find the romance forced and the characters sappy and unrealistic. And yet this film is unabashedly my favorite film of all time.
As I rewatched it tonight for what might be the tenth time now, I noticed new things just like I always do. I fall in love with Rachel McAdams just that much more. And I cry more and more every time. Director Richard Curtis chose to separate this rom com not through adding a sci-fi element, even though that's present, but by making this a story about life. About love. About Time. And as we see his characters grow naturally after we meet them for the first time, we attach to them and become a part of their family. We grow with them. We cry with them. And it always brings me to tears by the end, a long flow of tears of happiness for how beautiful this film is.
Tonight, I had a new experience with About Time, too. When I watched it, and I rediscovered these wonderful fictional people, it was like I saw all my old friends from high school. Like I got to sit in a cafe and share life stories with them. And I loved every second of it. Just another reason to love this film.