I have to stop her right there. I stop myself there too. Neither one of us could, in any iteration of life, become billionaires.
(There's a time-travel story for someone. Like the movie Primer but with one person who round-trips through time—placing stock bets and other investments in order to become wealthy. When they screw up an investment they get a do-over.
Life also happens though: a relationship, marriage… This aspect though begins to play on a sense of guilt and he resists do-overs in the relationship.
By the close of the story his pursuit of wealth wanes, evaporates completely. Contentment comes finally from his relationship, from accepting his missteps, from embracing the uncertainty of the future. The machine is scrapped, no more do-overs.)
I'm a fan of time travel sci-fi films and series, but the way that's presented as a romance film (written and directed by Richard Curtis) has always turned me off from it. On the plus side, it has Bill Nighy who I think is superb, but has the film got enough depth for me to get over the romance?
I recently watched a Korean sci-fi series based on time travel - Sisyphus, The Myth (or Sijipeuseu: The Myth as titled in IMDB) that has one character being sent back in time and proceeds to deliberately amass power and wealth.
They have a police/military force whose job is to locate and hunt down time travellers from the future as they can be so disruptive to the economy etc and there's lots of people wanting to travel back from the future due to it being a dystopia.
The wife too, "If I were a billionaire…"
I have to stop her right there. I stop myself there too. Neither one of us could, in any iteration of life, become billionaires.
(There's a time-travel story for someone. Like the movie Primer but with one person who round-trips through time—placing stock bets and other investments in order to become wealthy. When they screw up an investment they get a do-over.
Life also happens though: a relationship, marriage… This aspect though begins to play on a sense of guilt and he resists do-overs in the relationship.
By the close of the story his pursuit of wealth wanes, evaporates completely. Contentment comes finally from his relationship, from accepting his missteps, from embracing the uncertainty of the future. The machine is scrapped, no more do-overs.)