The Time It Takes

I like the story telling style. It really takes time to forget. Maybe not. The director got it. Good acting, quick story telling. I bingewatched. You can find like in your life lots of things in this story so that it grabs you. Am I better without you or not?

The story is well told and the acting is very good. Good pace. I like that the episodes are about 13, 14 minutes long. This was you don't get any "it's got to be an hour long, do we have anything to fill the hour with." The development of one of the characters never fully explains why he is acting the way he is which is a weak point. But the female lead does a great job carrying the story. I binge watched it and felt it was a better than 7 star show.

If you like movies like Marriage Story, Blue Valentine or Revolutionary Road you will almost certainly like this serie too. It's such a believable drama, every one can relate to. It also shows how men and women go through different phases getting over a breakup. It's plot is from the woman's perspective. It would be nice if there is a second season from the man's perspective.

The viewer is left thinking if she managed to get over Nico. I do think she did because women are slower bouncing back while men seems to have recovered fast, but a lot of times it is superficial.

So I hope they tell Nico's perspective on the relationship.

What makes this film such an absolute (albeit heartbreaking) joy to watch is how authentic and real it is. Most modern-day films about so-called real life revolve around the chaos and tragedies young people, especially young women, create by their own bad decisions and mistakes. Not so with The Time It Takes. While no one here is perfect, the characters are very believable in their behavior. Lina, as portrayed by Nadia de Santiago (who also helped create the series) is incredibly well written, acted, and developed as a character. (as well as breathtakingly beautiful) How the character of Nico could ever drift away from her is the only unbelievable aspect of the story.

And, by the way, the unusual way of allotting time to present/past scenes, where as we go along less is covered of the past, is explained in episode 7. Pay attention to something Nico says after his father's funeral.

This is a bittersweet story that I feel is going to haunt me for some time.

It would be amazing if we had a second season from the eyes of Nicko. I hope the director already considered doing so! It is like a normal movie in duration if you binge watch it and flows very nicely. It focuses on the relation of this couple and how it gets on through time with flashbacks getting shorter. Definitely worth a watch.