Time After Time

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Time After Time

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By Ben Elliott

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Time is the great equalizer. Reflecting on this idea can lead to either nihilism (nothing matters!) or a deep embrace of life (everything matters!).

When movies tackle time, they’re usually bittersweet affairs. There’s the real-time loss of innocence and stability in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. The examination of where our stories exist among the long history of the universe in Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life. Or how seemingly mundane people interact with the historical zeitgeist in Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump.

Here, 2024

Zemeckis returns to the theme of time in Here, which opens at The Triplex this week. Reuniting with his Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, Zemeckis plants his camera down in one spot and tells the story of generations of families as they live, lose, and move on from a place they all called home.

My Old Ass, 2024

Megan Park’s My Old Ass, also opening at The Triplex this week, gets at this dynamic in a different way. When Elliott (Gotham Award nominee Maisy Stella) takes mushrooms on her 18th birthday, she begins to communicate with her 39 year old self (Aubrey Plaza). This quasi-time travel device allows Park to explore the relationship between our present and past selves and the hindsight that we develop after those moments have passed.

An examination of time can be a celebration of the small moments that make up most of our lives, and also a mourning for the fact that we don’t realize how good we have it until it's too late. Though bittersweet, movies like these remind us to savor the present. This moment will never come again, because — whether we like it or not — time is always moving forward.

Showtimes

Showtimes Freakier Friday | 1:00PM, 3:30PM, 6:00PM, 8:30PM The Life of Chuck | 1:15PM, 4:15PM Highest 2 Lowest | 1:45PM, 4:45PM, 8:00PM The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg | 7:00PM

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