The "remote control" that regulates life

Architect Newman is a man who seems to be perfect. He has a lovely wife, a pair of lovely children; he himself also loves his wife, love children, hard work, cherish family.

　　But Newman also has his troubles, that is, sometimes work is too busy, often because of overtime and can not keep the promise to the children, such as watching his son's swimming competition, building the yard "tree house", and the family travel together, and so on. When Newman was so busy, he couldn't even tell which remote control was controlling which appliance in the house.

　　For this reason, Newman went to the store to buy a universal remote control that can control all the appliances.

　　Well, the story of "Life Remote Control" thus begins ......

　　When it comes to science fiction movies, some are far from our lives, some are close to our lives. Such as "Star Wars" and the like belong to the former, while like "Life Remote Control" belongs to the latter.

　　In the mysterious room of the store, Newman meets a science person Morty who is surrounded by all kinds of machinery and parts. Morty listened to Newman's request and generously gave him a universal remote control, but declared in advance that it could not be returned. Newman did not think: Who would return a free item?

　　Unexpectedly, the universal remote control has made a huge change in Newman's life -

　　This universal remote control, like the TV remote control, can actually control everything in life!

　　When Newman encountered people do not like to talk, the other side of the volume down, so that they can not hear each other yelling something; when Newman encountered traffic jams on the street, he took the fast-forward way, so that they ignore the unpleasant experience, directly into the car speeding state; sometimes Newman even like to prank, when listening to a speech to the speaker's image elongated, compressed, or change its language form.

　　Of course, Newman was not satisfied with this, he began to use the universal remote control to adjust his life.

　　Newman's elderly parents were eager to communicate with the Newman family, but Newman was always busy with work and not interested in family gatherings. This is good, as long as the "fast forward", this boring time will fly past; in daily life, Newman and his wife will inevitably have a quarrel, which is naturally very hurt feelings, this is good, as long as the "fast forward", this period of unhappy time will Just "fast forward", this unpleasant time will fly past. The universal remote control is like this, always for Newman to solve the problem.

　　However, the universal remote control is not a simple tool, it also has a memory function. When it is familiar with Newman's lifestyle, every time there is a family gathering or a couple quarrel, it will automatically "fast forward" and help Newman skip the unpleasant stage.

　　Instead of saying that Newman is in control of the universal remote control, it is better to say that the universal remote control is in control of Newman's life. In this way, Newman was promoted step by step to success, from an ordinary architect to a partner of the company, from a general employee to a project leader. At the same time, he also from the middle class into the upper class. However, Newman also paid the price: he missed his children growing up, missed sharing happiness with his family, missed spending time with his wife, and even missed being with his father when he died. As a result, when Newman was successful, his relationship with his wife had a crisis, and they eventually divorced, and his wife found a new lover.

　　Finally, the old and sickly Newman in his son's wedding, heard that his daughter actually called his wife's new husband "Dad", heart extremely sad, a heart attack, collapsed at the wedding site.

　　Only then did Newman realize that family happiness was far more important than career success, but at that point it was too late to understand. So, when his son wanted to give up his wedding honeymoon for the sake of his career, Newman, who was on his deathbed, strongly discouraged him, hoping that he would not repeat his mistakes ......

　　Life is supposed to be a one-way street, there is never a pill for regret. But Newman's remorse still touched Morty, he used his ability to help Newman back to the beginning. Newman was ecstatic and vowed to put his family first in the days ahead.

　　At this point, he found that Morty, who likes to play pranks, gave him a new universal remote control. Faced with temptation, Newman laughs it off and throws the "source of all evil" into the trash ......

　　As mentioned earlier, in the field of science fiction, some works are far away from the earth environment, while others are close to human life, and "Life Remote" naturally belongs to the latter. Therefore, when dealing with the time background, the film makers are not too deliberate, as long as they can express the meaning of "the future" clearly; but for the characters, the time span of the actors' performances is still relatively large, so the makeup is very important, and the film won some awards related to teenagers, but also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup, in addition to winning some youth-related awards.