Time Does Weird Things
Not time travel. Not time loops. Just… time behaving like it’s drunk. These movies treat time as mood, metaphor, or emotional weapon. You’ll understand the feeling even when you don’t understand the math.
The Picks
A man ages backwards, and the movie quietly asks what ‘a life’ even means when time refuses to cooperate.
Official synopsis
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Two people fall in love through a mailbox that refuses linear time. It’s romantic sci-fi, but gentle and strangely calming.
Official synopsis
When architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster. Their correspondence, only through the 'magical' mailbox, turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.