We Live In Time

Past, Present, Future

Gordie Jackson
2 min readJan 20, 2025
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It was Friday night and after the week I thought I needed ‘to get drunk on a film’. Our local (The Odyssey) has one screen so one film so I take my chances. It was ‘We Live In Time’.

I was surprised to see the Foyer so full, so I asked a staff member. He told me it was likely to do with Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. I took note, but names mean little. Later, I discovered Garfield was Spider-Man, and Pugh was in Little Women.

He also told me the film jumped different periods perhaps the clue was in the title. So yes we go back and forward and present in Tobias's (Garfield) and Almut's (Pugh) lives although the film is centred on their relationship.

I try to live in the now so in that sense I ‘got’ the film. Whatever happens in our lives whether past, present or future happens in our life so there is kinda an eternal quality.

Death comes in the film as it does in life however maybe the film is trying to demonstrate another maxim of mine “Love never dies”. The non-linear nature of the film acts as an example for instance how they meet is a ‘forever moment’ it cannot be erased and all that followed came from it. And how they met was influenced by what was going on before, when does one moment begin and another end?

What I particularly like about the film is how it shows what ‘goes on behind closed doors’ and that’s not just the sex. The emotional vulnerability that exists between two people in the relationship, and the irrationality of our minds is all there for us to realise it is not just us it is all of us.

The moments in the films are our moments, you will see yourself in the film well maybe some won’t. The beginning of a relationship, the loving moments, the moments of hurt, the movements of change, the laughs and the tears.

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Gordie Jackson
Gordie Jackson

Written by Gordie Jackson

Speaks with a Northern Irish accent, lives in Hertfordshire, England.

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