We Live in Time
We Live in Time
A surprise encounter brings together a couple (Florence Pugh & Andrew Garfield), changing the course of their lives. Challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of their decade-spanning and movingly rare love story.
Kit Lazer reviewedMay 23, 2025
It might be a stopwatch, or the timer on an iPhone. It could be an egg timer in the kitchen, or the countdown at an international cooking competition, though that’s less likely for most of us. We’re surrounded by the constant reminder that our stay here on Earth is limited—our lives are finite.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
-William Penn
What do we do with it? With whom do we spend it? Should we excel, learn, or make love? Does it matter?
I was a strange little boy. I can remember rocking and weeping in the middle of the night at eight years old, crushed by the weight of mortality. I was doing the math (I must have just learned it), figuring how old my dad would be when I was twenty. 56? He’s going to die! (That was macabre but I wasn’t far off, he died when I was 24, my mother when I was 22.)
In high school I calculated how many books I could likely read before I died and compared it to the number of masterpieces there must be. I despaired.
I’ve wasted countless hours worrying about how little time I have, and even more worrying about how much I worry. I should be reading, or cooking, or learning to ice skate. I should be sharing with other people.
I used to love when Maximus says in Gladiator, “What we do in life, echoes in eternity.” I don’t think that’s true. If it’s going to echo at all, it’s with those we leave behind.
Tick tock