Lhe transience of the present, a great love that risks shutting down due to selfishness and a life that disintegrates before your eyes. Edoardo Leo is the protagonist dthe It was timenew movie license plate Netflix, available from today. In the cast Also Barbara Ronchi, Francesca Cavallin, Raz Degan, Massimo Wertmüller, Mario Sgueglia and Andrea Purgatori.
It was timethe plot of the film on Netflix
Dante (Edoardo Leo) is a forty-year-old career focused on work, certain that today’s sacrifices will be repaid by more time available tomorrow. He lives with Alice (Barbara Ronchi)an artist met by chance some time before at a New Year’s party. It was time opens with a quote from Winnie the Pooh: The rivers know it: there is no hurry. We’ll get there eventually.
For Dante, on the other hand, there is a rush, and how. Always on the run, between office and daily chores, pursues his biggest dream. Working hard now and giving up free time to get to fifty years of age so rich and successful that you can buy everything, even time. A philosophy of life that is put to the test on his fortieth birthday.
In the morning Alice wakes him up with wild ballet and pancakes, but he’s late. He has to rush to the office for the usual busy day a thousand commitments. In the evening at home she waits for him for a surprise partybut he arrives several hours late.
Edoardo Leo at the mercy of an accelerated life
When he opens his eyes the next day, he discovers that it’s his birthday again, but from the following year. Alice is four months pregnant and battling morning sickness. Initially thinks it’s a joke, but the day after years he is already 42. The baby was born, crawling and stammering Pope.
At this point understands to live a nightmare with open eyesthe. He is at the mercy of an accelerated life which he can no longer govern and, year after year, has to face different scenarios. Between these, the illness of his father (Massimo Wertmüller) suffering from Alzheimer’s, the friendship with Valerio (Mario Sgueglia) and, above all, the crisis with Alice.
His life is falling apart. Any attempt to restore things as they were proves in vain. It is clear to him when reality presents him with the bill. «For years I was convinced that I was nothing without you. That’s why I felt so bad when you weren’t there, but now I understand that I can do it». Alice’s line has the effect of a tsunami.
“Are you telling me you don’t need me anymore?” he replies. “I’m telling you maybe it’s wrong to need someone.” Dante would like to recover, but how do you do it when you are at the mercy of external factors and life has already gotten out of hand?
Edoardo Leo and Barbara Ronchi are Dante and Alice in “Era ora”. (Fabio Iovino)
It was timethe review
Taken from the movie Long story short, It was time is a romantic comedy that deals with the theme of the passage of time and how the inability to manage it, and to enjoy it, can lead to the breakdown of relationships and the loss of loved ones. And especially, unhappiness. “You don’t know how many people get to me like this. Consumed by your projects, caught up in what you have to do tomorrow, in a week, in a month. And in the meantime, life is slipping away from you,” he says Omar (Raz Degan) at a certain point.
«And do you know what they leave next, Dante? The regrets. Do you know what His Holiness the Dalai Lama says? There are two days a year when nothing can be done: one is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow.’ The film revolves around this concept: live fully today so as not to regret tomorrow. And understand it in time, before it’s too late.
Edoardo Leo gives yet another proof of his caliber. Credible, it returns the image of a man in crisis, able to observe reality only when it is revealed before his eyes. The same can be said of Barbara Ronchi: iembodies the prototype of the apparently weak link of the couple, but when he decides to say enough and to reclaim his life, he does it without ifs and buts.
Edoardo Leo and Massimo Wertmüller in a scene from “Era ora”, on Netflix (Fabio Iovino)
Bartering the present for a better future?
Both give life to two characters in which it is easy to reflect. He caught up in the frenzy, life goals, regardless of what is around him. She waiting to be seen by her partner and perhaps even by herself. they represent one of the many couples in which love, if not constantly nourished, risks weakening, until it dies.
And it is too an examination of existence in general: Is it worth exchanging the present for a peaceful future that exists only in our minds? It was time becomes the bearer of a sacrosanct lesson: as John Lennon said, life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. And Dante, like anyone, must be good enough to figure it out before he’s too late.
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