Wow...a difficult movie and a long review

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 2015)

Before reviewing this film, I have to state that: - I rarely review movies, but I felt like the reviews are way off, either too good or too bad. - I do not care about photography, acting or other technical aspects as long as it is halfway decent and don't affect the plot. In other words, what I think makes a movie good is having a good plot, so I'm not gonna enter the other aspects here. - I really think people that hated it didn't understand the concept at all. And not because of sci-fi stuff, as I myself am but I merely admirer of the genre, and while I do enjoy the theories, I don't discuss physics and all. With that being said, let me explain further: *This movie portrays many different plot options at the same time. While it could be the series of decisions the 9-year-old would make if he were to choose mom or dad, it could just as well not be about that at all. I've seen people saying it could be the 9-year-old's IMAGINATION. Nemo states that he can see the future. If you believe that, his different life options could happen in the future or could just as well be happening as alternate realities. If you do not believe that, however, it could be just what he thinks would happen. There are more extents to which the movie could go, too. Old-Nemo states that he would go back in time when the universe reached that date. So the plot's beginning could be the old man and the decision HE makes would change his destiny into a younger version of himself, as time reverses. I demonstrated only four different possibilities , but there must be a lot more. That is what I think people didn't understand. It is not jut about one certainty, but rather what it COULD be. * There is also a misunderstanding about the different choices. They are not three, divided between the girls. There are a lot of ramifications to those realities. * Some people said that the scientific theories presented are just thrown there and they don't amount to anything. That is completely incorrect. The 9 String Theory is justified by what I explained could be different realities. The Big Bang reversing too. Also, at some point it is explained that people who can see the future can change it and change the past, and that, without time as a dimension, there would be no limits. That is used to hint that maybe Nemo either found a way to do that or could do it from the start because he "wasn't touched by Oblivion". That is yet another possibility for the film. All those realities could have been real at some point, but he changes the past as soon as something bad happens to retry again and can go to the future as well to see what his life would turn out to be if he kept that decision. The film is presented in that order for a particular reason that also hints at that. First, he went with his mother. He met Anna for the first time and said her friends were stupid. She got mad and, going to his future self, Nemo saw that Anna married someone else. So he went back to the past and said he couldn't swim. They then fell in love, but were separated at 15. At that point he freaked out and went back to his 9-year-old self. He chose, instead, to be with his father, which then lead to him meeting Elisa. He kissed her, but, the next day, she had that guy over at her house. He fled and had a motorcycle accident. He then changed the past again. And so it goes, generating different results each time he does that, similarly to "Butterfly Effect".
As a side note, I don't this movie means to actually portray love or family, but what it could be if he chooses it. I don't see it as a brilliant love story, which is why the kids don't matter - they are not important, because they are a "what if?".
Well, with all of that explained, the negative points for me were that the ending was not quite as good as I expected and that the movie was too long. They could've passed the same idea in much less time.
I will leave here a couple of things for other reviewers to think about: - It is also hinted that he could change the future and the past when old Nemo talks about the Architect. He said it was the 9-year- old. Maybe it wasn't just his imagination, but him actually trying that life out for himself before deciding. It could also have been a reference to God or to lucid dreaming. - What happens in the reality he did choose? Not to go with his mother or his father is a choice. Is that perhaps the real life he lead?
There are also a couple of points I didn't understand, and if you did, PLEASE message me: - The first time Nemo realizes maybe he can see the future, his father's car hits his mother. She was with a baby, but we never see it afterwards. Yet, the baby couldn't have died in the accident because the car only runs over her. After that, however, she doesn't even get hurt. How? - Why Anna? All the other realities either ended with him or one of the women being dead. Elise dies, so does Anna. Yet, at the very last "ending", he gets to be happy with Anna. Why? Is she his true love? Will that be what life leads him to if he is a runaway?
PS: The accents changing at times was on purpose to portray Nemo's confusion throughout his memories/ choices.