Blog #3

In About Time, the lead actor finally learned the last lesson of travel in time where he decided not to go back in time because to him, every day is a perfect day with his family around him even if the day doesn’t go as great as he plans to. The sound that’s being used is a soft and loving song with this one lyric “I’m the luckiest” repeats quite a few times which matches the mood of the actor who is very thankful for his ordinary yet extraordinary life. At the beginning of the scene, it’s just him and his kids getting ready for school, the shots are not completely steady and in fact, they are a little bit shaky which further enhances the shots where he seems kind of messy when he’s making breakfast for his kids. This also adds onto the fact that his life is imperfect because he can’t travel back in time to change things in order to perfect them where as before, he would go back in time and change things if they don’t turn out the way he likes them. After that scene, there’s a lot of different shots showing other ordinary people living their day to day life where their days are also not perfect but they seem like they are enjoying the moment. All the shots are organized in terms of their content where the first few are on the lead actor and his family then slowly moving on to people on the streets but with two to three shots of other people that appeared in the movie before which show how their lives are at that moment. There are a few shots that I want to point out and they are when he bought his daughter to school then his daughter waved goodbye to him again and again for four times where she would go into the classroom then come back out to say goodbye to him. So the shots are on his daughter, then on him which really show his expressions at the moment where he’s very happy, they are also medium close up shots so we could see his facial expressions and movement. These shots reinforced the fact that his ordinary life is actually quite nice. The color of all the shots is very soft because it wants to bring out this image of how our ordinary day to day life can be nice and sweet. The cuts of this scene are very obvious because the movie wanted to show the audience how different people live their ordinary lives which are quite similar in a way, compared to lead actor’s life.