I thought this film had a good message about not being able to go back and change things and that we should spend time in the present with those who we are with because we won’t get that time later. However, there are better movies with the same message in my opinion. I think the story was okay, but it didn’t really touch me emotionally. I just thought it was just an ordinary comedy. I can see why it is seen as a comedy, but I also didn’t really laugh at all. I wish that there had been more use of music that was slower but that would help make his flashbacks more powerful and profound. I think that would have helped me find them more important if not just as important as they were to Paolo. I also wish that it was more focused on his present because it was about the importance of being in the present rather than continually going back in time and reflecting on the things that happened and what he should or should not have done.
This film is quite Italian. Just like the past few movies we watched about family and romantic relationships, it continues to stress the importance of family and how they are together no matter what, and the woman runs the family and is more emotional than the man. The end was interesting for me. I liked that he was shown playing with the refrigerator light with his kids which tied it up from the beginning when he mentioned how that was one of the questions that he thought about. It was also nice just seeing his family happy and together. But I also wish he would have died because that is real life. The family aspect of it was real, but the dying part of it and where the dead go was not real. No one can decide if you get to stay alive or not wherever the afterlife is, and once you’re very dead, it's quite unlikely that you’re going to be brought back to life. Had he stayed dead, I think that would have driven home the message further that you only have the time here on earth, and it’s up to you to decide what you are going to do with it before your time is up.
There are two messages in this story that I think are important: people feel guilt and regret and hindsight is 20/20, but also, even though those memories pop up and we can’t control them, we also can’t spend time pondering on them, especially if it’s that we haven’t lived life to the fullest and haven’t been present. Overall, I would rate this a 6/10 film.
- Mae Crosby
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