CLICK

Finally watched the movie CLICK (2006) yesterday. The movie is about a guy who was not satisfied about his life and was given a remote control that can pause, fast forward, go back and re-watch, mute etc his life.

At first, he is very happy about the remote because he can fast- forward the moments that he doesn't like, such as argument, stressful moments, failure at work, sad events etc. However, this remote is really intelligent that it can remember the user's preferences and gradually run the fast forward function on its own. Thus, he is being skipped all the unpleasant moments automatically and every time when it's back to normal speed it's always promotion, promotion and promotion.

He wanted to have his life back and to stop skipping the unpleasant moments after a while but there is no such function. He is even automated to skip his own father's death and funeral, which he is really frustrated about. He is so sad and asked why Morty who gave him that non-returnable control is doing this to him.

He is able to watch the moment when he last saw his father - he was so busy at work that he barely looked at his father who paid a surprise visit to his office, he is so sad to know this and keep repeating the moment when his old father says "I love you son".

When he is fast forwarded near the end of his life, at the hospital he sees his son is following his steps, putting work above everything else and decided to postpone the honeymoon. He wanted to say something to his son desperately but they left. Morty, the angel of death who gave him the remote control, saw him taking away the tubes and machines that are sustaining his life and ran after his son, warned him "it doesn't have to be now". But he wouldn't listen and keep chasing after his son. Fell onto the ground at a rainy night, his son spots him luckily, and the 3 words that he wanted so much to say are "family comes first" to his son and "I am sorry" to his ex-wife(which he has fast-forward all the argument and he doesn't even know they are divorced until a while later). And Morty took him away.

Suddenly, he finds himself woke up in the store he has fallen asleep, back to when he wanted to buy a multi-function remote control. He was given a second chance. When he is back to home, happily thinks that it was just a dream, the remote appears again on the kitchen table. Shocked in horror, he read the card attached to the remote that is written by Morty, who believes "good guys need a break sometimes and I believe u would use it wisely this time".

Without a second thought, he throws the remote away in the rubbish bin and it doesn't return ever again.
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I think this movie is worth watching. When I was at school in my psychology class, I remember we have discussed about that is happiness and there is one point that is quite true: without unhappiness, there would be no way for us to know what happiness is. For sure we wouldn't want to deal with all the sad moments in life, however, every moments in our lives made us who we are and meant something to us, weather those are happy or unhappy moments.