Every story has a fairy tale. Nice romantic comedy. Almost like a fairy tale. But not exactly.
We have always been taught that the past cannot be changed (12 monkeys). Or that if you can change something, it will only get worse in the end (“The Butterfly Effect”). Yes, sometimes adventures in the past for the heroes still ended well (the trilogy “Back to the Future”). But it's more of an exception to the rule. The main message that I personally learned after watching a number of films is that in the past it is better not to touch anything at all.
But the main character of the film “Love beats twice”, apparently, about this “rule of time travelers” never heard. Because she went into the past with only one desire: to change it! And change dramatically for yourself, changing one of the key decisions in your life. Satellite selection. I don’t want to go into any more detail (because I hope that casual readers of this “review” were intrigued by the plot, and perhaps intrigued even as much as I did some time ago, that it would encourage them to find and see the film themselves). But you may be wondering what, they say, this is a “simple” fairy-tale romantic comedy, so you can probably understand what will happen to the heroine next? Yes, in general terms, the plot of the film should not be difficult to describe. Will the heroine change the past? Yeah. Will she go smoothly? Nope. Can she handle everything? Yeah. But which of the two cavaliers will she choose – the “old”, with whom she lived in marriage for many years before traveling to the past and is no longer sure that he was the “right”; or the “new” with whom she had the opportunity to connect her life, but decided differently for the first time? Will the heroine change her choice? Do you think the answer is obvious here too? I don't know. Maybe. Until the end of the film, it’s interesting to watch. Stirring up interest is also the fact that the heroine along with her romantic question is taken to solve a couple of problems of different scale – because she now has knowledge that was not before (like Biff with the “Sports Almanac” from “Back to the Future 2”) and which pulls to use.
So, is this another movie for people who say the past can be changed? Another exception to the “time traveler rule,” another non-canon story? Partly, yes. However, the main change that happens in the film is not a change in the past. The main thing that changes is ... the view of the main character, her attitude to relationships (sorry for the pun). Journey into the past helps the heroine to ask the question - is he at all, "the one" she was looking for? Should she, like a princess from a fairy tale, meet her “prince,” with whom and only with whom they would necessarily live happily ever after? .
The heroine will make her choice. But most importantly – she will understand that she has a choice (sorry for the “wiping out”).
8 out of 10