Hello movie lovers and friends of the CineTv community. This week's contest we are to talk about a movie that we think is too much. Now, what do I mean by too much before I selected the movie I am about to talk about? "See You Yesterday"
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It has been a very long time since I watched this movie, but when I say watched it, I mean I have seen this movie more than four times now. One thing I love about this movie is that it carries too much truth, emotions, science, society rules, and so much. This is not a movie that you would watch once time and get all the themes that were hidden in plain sight.
Well, before I hype it too much, let me tell you why I feel this movie is overwhelming. You know how you discover a hidden knowledge or something anyone hasn't seen before, and you try to use it to change the fate of a person or someone's destiny.
You see, in this movie, it was shown to us that the pursuit of trying to have a God like power, which is "Time Traveling," and at the same time, trying to change the fate of a person is very dangerous.
In this movie, we also see how bad the black community has been looked down upon, stereotyped, and how teenagers are killed almost every day because of their skin color. How a mother lost her husband and kid because the white police felt anyone who is black in a white neighborhood is a criminal, a suspect, or about to commit a crime.
What you need to know (The Review)
"See You Yesterday" is a story about two black smart students (C J and Sabastine)
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They were building a time machine for their science day project which will land them in a better university to further their education. The truth was that they only had everything in theory, but as time went on, they gave it a test run, and it was a success (Not on the first trailer though)
They were successfully able to travel to the past, and it was fun. It project was successful and everything was going fine until C J offended some guys, and on her way, trying to run away from them, she met her big brother, who drove those guys away and started walking her home while giving her the sermon of
"You are a lady, you should stay away from guys like that"
While they were still on their way home, two guys ran past them, and they were like "who the hell are these guys running anyhow" Just a few steps taken by C.J.'s brother, his friend, and C J, some cops pulled up on them and started asking them questions. They were like, "some guys just ran past us" but the cops were not buying it.
It was simple; they could have checked the identity on their phone or in their car, but they didn't. Just as C.J. Bother was about to bring out his ID or phone, the cop shot him, and he ended up dead. It was then that he went to confirm the ID and discovered they had the wrong person shot.
Remember, C.J and Sebastian already discovered the secret to time travel. C.J begged Sebastian to help her so she could change her brother's fate, but Sebastian was skeptical about it. As long last, he helped her and they both traveled back to Yesterday before the C.J brother was shot, in the process of helping C.J brother, Sabastian was shot.
After C.J went back to the future, because they only had 15 minutes to stay in the past. Sabastian was the one buried, and she couldn't do the project without him. So she went back to try saving Sebastian, but the time she came back to the future, her brother was dead. She went back and repeated the same thing, but Sebastian was dead again when she was back.
In a nutshell, she couldn't change the fate of death for either Sebastian or her brother. She told her brother everything, and he told her to go back to correct her wrong. If it was his time to move on to the afterlife, then she should let him. Sebastian was the only child left to his grandparents after his parent died.
After the long conversation, she wore her time-traveling machine, then told her brother, "See You Yesterday."
One lesson I learnt just now after writing the review is that, no matter who you try to save, another person will be a victim of the fate you want to change. This is what has been happening in the black community that lives on white man's land. That was ages ago. I don't think things like that are as rampant as they used to be. The movie has a lot a people can learn from and I would recommend it to anyone any day.
Here is a trailer.
https://youtu.be/8MVRWQ1PnMo?si=En86X8IQr2k_WULO
Thanks for reading. My name is Fashtioluwa.
