Our Times

4.7 What I love about a time travel movie is when the protagonist explores the new world they travel to and this film didn’t have much of it. Instead its theme was heavily based off of gender inequality which I felt tainted the story quite a bit. I would have preferred for them to have focused on the love story and how this new world was separating them. But unfortunately that was only the last like 20 min

4/5 ⭐️

For the first 15 minutes of this movie, I thought I was watching a Mexican version of Back to the Future, but that wasn’t the case.

The story follows a couple from the 1960s. Nora (Lucero), a physicist, is unable to shine simply because she’s a woman, while her husband, Héctor (Benny Ibarra), receives all the recognition for their research. Everything changes when they travel to the future in a time machine and arrive in the year 2025. Nora discovers that women have far more rights and opportunities in the future, realizing that she can achieve anything she sets her mind to and build a successful career. Meanwhile, Héctor becomes jealous and feels like he no longer contributes to their research, since he’s used to a very different era.

I hadn’t realized it before, but this is actually a film with a feminist narrative that works really well. Lucero and Benny have great chemistry as a couple, and the supporting cast is also very good.

The only thing I didn’t really like was the ending. Héctor returns to the past because he can’t adapt to the future, while Nora stays behind and becomes a successful woman. Thirty years later, they reunite. Personally, I would have preferred an ending where Héctor destroys the time machine and chooses to stay in the future with Nora instead.

sweet. good show of how times have changed