Living in the World of Time

N.B. I’m not sure, of course, exactly what I’d think of this movie if I saw it again, but I’ve very conservatively downgraded it based on how I’ve reacted to romantic films I’ve seen more recently and the changes in my point of view. At some point I might remove the review entirely; I’m not sure.

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I think it’s fair to say that Jack was not a mystic but an investigator of the ordinary world, (and the magic of the ordinary world), but it’s also clear that his investigations were usually sound, and prepared him to live a decent life, even in that field of personal (romantic!) experience so difficult to find in a pure state in ordinary people (and regardless of whether they’re academics or not, lol).

There’s a scene near the end where Jack tells Joy (basically) that he feels like they’ve solved Life, you know, like they’re not living in the world of Time anymore; they’ve found God. (Which I suppose is the newbie response to ‘falling in love’.) But Joy tells Jack that really they are living in the world of Time still, that they’ve come across a nice thread in Time, but later he’ll have to face the nastier side of the coin, but to remember that that’s just how it works in the world of Time. “That’s the deal”.

And, because Jack accepts that he’s living in the world of Time, when the coin flips, he’s okay with it.

Added by neotheognis
2 years ago on 7 January 2023 12:52