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The unwavering sincerity of About Time is what makes it special. Instead, About Time just decides that its characters are good people. In a different film, perhaps even a lesser film, the narrative would take a detour examining the moral implications of the men in the Lake family hiding their incredible super ability to manipulate time and reality. Not only is a secret often something shameful and remorseful, but the act of hiding is in itself evil.
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In moral philosophy, secrecy is often tied to evil.
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About Time doesn’t care about following the rules of science fiction when it is so clearly making its own world, one which operates under the rules of dreamlike romantic comedy. Sure the actual science of this time travel is never explained, but again, it doesn’t matter. Sure there are gaping plot-holes, but it doesn’t matter. Even with the rules explained, the internal logic of About Time makes no sense. Importantly, the men can only travel within their own lives or as Bill Nighy so eloquently puts it “you can’t kill Hitler or shag Helen of Troy, unfortunately”. The secret is simple the men in his family can travel back in time. Written and directed by Richard Curtis, About Time follows Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) as he pursues Mary (Rachel McAdams) with the help of an old family secret revealed to him by his father (Bill Nighy). In 2013’s romantic comedy About Time, a secret is what lets the love story blossom.