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About Time
Movie

About Time

2013 • Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Woke Score
1
out of 10

Plot

At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time... The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life-so he decides to make his world a better place...by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to train as a lawyer, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). They fall in love, then an unfortunate time-travel incident means he's never met her at all. So they meet for the first time again-and again-but finally, after a lot of cunning time-traveling, he wins her heart. Tim then uses his power to create the perfect romantic proposal, to save his wedding from the worst best-man speeches, to save his best friend from professional disaster and to get his pregnant wife to the hospital in time for the birth of their daughter, despite a nasty traffic jam outside Abbey Road. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim finds out that his unique gift can't save him from the sorrows and ups and downs that affect all families, everywhere. There are great limits to what time travel can achieve, and it can be dangerous too.

Overall Series Review

About Time is a 2013 romantic comedy centered on a young man who uses his unique time-travel ability to secure a wife and navigate the everyday challenges of family life. The story functions as a direct affirmation of traditional, normative structures, focusing intensely on the value of a nuclear family, marriage, and fatherhood. The main characters, an awkward but kind male lead and a supportive, loving female lead, demonstrate a clear complementary dynamic. The film's core moral lesson is a secular call to virtue, advising the protagonist to live each day fully and appreciate the simple, transcendent moments of life, especially those spent with family. The setting and cast reflect a largely homogenous, upper-middle-class British environment, and the narrative contains no elements of intersectional politics, civilizational critique, or progressive sexual ideology. The film's thematic emphasis on procreation, familial piety, and personal morality places it directly in opposition to the themes associated with the woke mind virus.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film centers on the lives of an upper-middle-class, entirely white British family, with no forced inclusion of diversity or political commentary on race or systemic oppression. Character issues relate to personal awkwardness and family dynamics, not immutable characteristics.

Oikophobia1/10

The movie strongly affirms the importance of the family unit and the comfort of the family home in Cornwall. The core message focuses on gratitude for one's own life and the simple, everyday existence, which directly opposes civilizational self-hatred.

Feminism2/10

The movie champions traditional gender dynamics centered on courtship, marriage, and procreation. The climax of the protagonist's development involves embracing fatherhood and ending his time travel out of love for his children, celebrating a pro-natalist, family-focused ideal.

LGBTQ+1/10

The entire plot revolves around the male protagonist securing a wife and establishing a normative nuclear family structure. The narrative avoids centering alternative sexualities or introducing any form of gender ideology.

Anti-Theism1/10

The movie operates on a transcendent moral principle: that a truly happy life is achieved by focusing on the present and appreciating the everyday. The narrative uses a secular superpower to reinforce universally positive virtues of love, kindness, and family, without any critique or vilification of traditional faith.