Review to one of the most relevant movies of my life

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Wednesday, October 3, 2012

            Being inserted in the style of filming of the decade of 1980’s and in the comedic science fiction genre, Back to the Future is not only one of the most relevant movies which characterize that decade but also one of my favorite movies. Written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and produced by Stephen Spielberg, beyond the excellent techniques of filming, Back to the Future plot has a large consistence, having influence in today’s idea of time travelling and in the ideas of plots of other movies and television series’ chapters.
            Back to the Future revolves around Marty McFly (portrayed by Michael J. Fox), a seventh-year-old teenager who lives alongside his parents in the fictional town of Hill Valley, California. One day, Marty goes to the meet with his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown (portrayed by Christopher Lloyd) who Marty treats as “Doc”, and is obliged to enter in the time machine DeLorean “Doc” built, after the scientist have been shoot by Libyan terrorists who sought for plutonium.
Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly
and Christopher Lloyd as
Emmett “Doc” Brown
            In the year of 1955, Marty meets his mother and father as teenagers, and tries to provoke his father, George McFly (portrayed by Crispin Glover), to be courageous and to face Biff Tannen (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson), a thug and a pretender to his mother, Lorraine (portrayed by Lea Thompson), and so to provoke the affair between their parents, after unwittingly having separate them and having induced her mother to have love feelings by himself. In the movie’s final, Marty succeeds in inducing their parents to an affair, and so to avoid his own disappearance and his siblings’, and goes to the meet of a relatively youth Emmett Brown to warn him about the future and go back to his time, the year 1985.

DeLorean time machine at
Back to the Future ride, now removed.
            The movie explores an interesting view about time travelling, in which the future may be changed if one changes the timeline in a past time, as it may be observed in the epilogue, in which the McFly family becomes well succeeded due to the gain of courage by George McFly in the year of 1955, allowing him to become a brilliant science fiction writer and to have Biff as his employee. The character Emmett Brown, the secondary protagonist of the movies series, represents the stereotype of an off-minded but knowledgeable and intelligent scientist, having invented the first time machine in the shape of a DeLorean DMC-12 car, which needs plutonium in a nuclear reactor, as well as reach 88 miles per hour, to time travel. Beyond this aspect, the movie also establishes the contrast between the technology of the decade of 1950’s, in which the cars are represented still with an antiquated aspect and televisors still have a monochrome screen, and the technology of the 1980’s, in which cars are more modern and television sets have polychrome screens.
            Back to the Future is not only an enjoyable movie to be watched, but also a story to be subjected to reflection, despite being a commercial film, either because of the science fiction theme inherent to it or the differences between society in two different times.

1 Response to "Review to one of the most relevant movies of my life"

  1. Teacher Helena says:
    December 17, 2012 at 2:39 PM

    Back to the Future was a hit in the 80s, it received several awards, including an Oscar for Best Effects, and was nominated to other categories. I find it interesting that you have chosen this film in particular because it marked a decade concerning the science fiction genre.

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