Actually, I’m not a huge fan of Adam Sandler. Yes, that’s right, I don’t really like Adam Sandler. In fact, I don’t really like comedians in general. Although, perhaps that’s a bit of an overstatement. I honestly don’t know what exactly Sandler did to annoy me. In real life, I’d probably fall in love with him. But why I can’t in real life, I don’t know. Maybe for me, American comedy feels like a sort of afterlife genre. It’s not funny, it’s silly and… well, okay, okay, I’m generalizing… Anyway, I don’t know. Movies with Sandler never really appealed to me. And that was enough for me not to watch them too often. But. In Click, Kate Beckinsale starred. And the plot intrigued me with its fantasy element. Well, never mind, with Sandler. If he messes it up, Kate will pull it off. And Christopher Walken is in it too. Interesting.
Comedy.
It’s surprising who classifies these films. Not a single funny moment throughout the entire film, but I was crying almost all through the second half. I’m sitting there, holding a pillow to myself with one hand, and with the other, wiping mascara off my cheeks. Honestly, I flooded all of Oakland. It’s an incredibly sad movie about a guy who gets a universal remote, and with it, he starts skipping over unpleasant events—sickness, scandals with his wife, waiting for a promotion… but the remote, damn it, starts remembering the “settings” and unexpectedly starts skipping the bad stuff—illnesses, expectations, scandals… Before he knows it, he dies of a heart attack after his son’s wedding (who was just a child a few days ago) in the rain on the asphalt. Along the way, he gains about four times his weight, battles cancer, loses weight after the illness, loses his beloved wife, misses his father’s death… In short, it’s a deeply sad story, and the worst part is he can’t do anything about it, the remote sets itself up and fast-forwards his life, not letting him change a thing…
In the end, of course, everything turns out well, but for a while after the movie, the sound of the words “where are you speeding through your life?” still rings in your head like a hammer strike. On one hand, of course, I’m learning to enjoy every moment. I especially try not to avoid the joys of life, expressing love for the people close to me as best I can. But still, sometimes I catch myself thinking that everything is just slipping by, and only time seems to be flying as if fast-forwarded by a magical universal remote. And then, suddenly, you’re an adult. And suddenly, your mom is gone. And I didn’t get to tell her how much I love her. And suddenly, I’m divorced. Suddenly, I’m sitting in a bathtub with a razor in my hand. Suddenly, I’m in a different country. Suddenly, I’m alone again. Suddenly—I don’t know what will happen next. But I don’t want to fly through time with the remote in hand, missing the moments of joy in this amazing life.