Unexpectedly Good

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2016)

I am not really into the kind of film which is full of 'Love Actually' themes but 'About Time' caught me unawares and I was drawn into the easy story line. On the surface there is no great difficulty in understanding this film - it's about love: love between a man and woman; love within the family; love of a father for his son. Quite often films are full of danger, violence and bad language - where the F-word appears in every sentence. This is not like that. There is sex, but it is beautiful, awkward, funny and passionate. The acting is good because it is life-like. This film says: this is what life can be...and it is easy to see how this could be so. There are great philosophical themes too. What could happen if one is able to travel back through time and undo one's faults and mistakes. I like this film very much. It made me laugh at my own stupidity and cry because I loved my dad, who is now dead. I could quite easily see myself putting it in my Desert Island list of films to save from the waves.