We Live In Time is one of the many emotionally devastating, grounded films that we get to enjoy this year. Though there have been notable films in more fantastical genres this year, the more reality-based movies seemed to have a rise in 2024. The everyday stories are what we seem to be focused on and that is going to make award season far more entertaining and difficult. That said, let's dive into the latest Andrew Garfield, and Florence Pugh film.
Now we are going into this film knowing that there are time jumps. The very first sequence seems to be in order, and we end with how they meet.
This is already hitting hard. She’s got cancer and she's telling him that she might not want to fight it, which is a conversation that I've had with my husband. Cancer runs in my family pretty strongly and if I get it we’ve talked about me not taking any treatment. And he made the same sad boy face that Andrew Garfield did.
Then we go back to the fact that mommy has cancer, so this movie is going to make me cry, that's cool.
I understand why we used the time jumps, I am a huge fan of The Last Five Years so it's nothing new, and it's not like it's difficult to follow a narrative like this (though some people on the internets where having a hard time, but that's a literacy/intelligence problem), the problem is the frequency of the time switches. As soon as you start to get emotionally invested in a moment, it changes.
They are trying really hard to hide how big Andrew Garfield's arms are…it’s not working
Oh they weren’t married before they had a kid, but they are getting married now that she has cancer. That’s why the movie is out of order because their whole ass relationship is out of order.
Alma not being able to compete in this competition properly because chemo is fucking her up is breaking my heart. Her hand is all bruised from the IV, she's puking and her nose is bleeding, not ideal for a chef. Chemo sucks.
Oh no…the second round of this competition is on their wedding, he's a very understanding boy but she did not tell him she was doing this competition. In fact, she lied to him about it soooo.
Florence’s final big monologue had me in tears, so fun fact my mom died of cancer and I had to watch it kill her slowly for three years. So in this situation I am the little girl. And Almut’s need to do something that was important to her even though she was sick makes perfect sense to me.
Baby girl cooking with Tobias at the end literally means mom is dead and that was a lot for me. This was a very upsetting ending.
Overall it was incredible. It was emotional, heartbreaking, devastating. The casting was incredible. Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh have incredible chemistry and they look great together. I like that the time jumps slowed down after act 1. They really seemed to serve as a more rapid fire introduction to the characters and their relationship so I didn’t mind that. The story did end up hitting really close to home for me, and that was a lot. But it was an extremely well told story, I think I'd give it a solid 8.5/10. There have been a lot of grounded films like this this year so I am not sure where it is going to stand when it comes to awards season. But I think Florence Pugh’s performance deserves a nomination.
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