Denielle Ma. Kiana P. Celestra January 30, 2013
ECE 101 English Communication 2

“Click”

Plot: Michael Newman, a workaholic architect is married to Donna, his long-time partner and blessed with two children, Samantha and Ben. He’s an architect who is always pressured regarding with his works. He acts like this because he wants to give the things he haven’t before. That’s why he has little time to be with his family and just simply work to raise them up. The story starts when he’s looking for a universal remote control in Bed Bath & Beyond. Michael is out of himself and suddenly, he falls asleep in a bed and he proceeds to a section called “Beyond.” He sees there an old man and was named Morty. Without asking what Michael is looking for, this old man gives him a universal remote control and warns him that it can never be return to him. When he found out that the universal remote control the old man said him, it’s actually to control the universe, regarding by time. You can play, mute, delete, pause, slow motion, fast forward, skip and rewind. He went back to the section called Beyond and chats with the old man. And that’s the time when he uses the button fast forward, his body is in “auto-pilot,” meaning his mind skips but his body does the everyday routine. As time passes by, he sees into the control that he’ll be promoted and as usual he skips the time. And it ends up by skipping years. He misses a lot of memorable things such as the death of his dog and he’s in a marriage counselling. When the remote begins to run with itself, Michael is destroying it and it didn’t work so he changes his life in order for the remote not to control him anymore. On the next day, when he’s boss is leaving the country and promotes Michael to be the CEO. Of course no thinking twice, he accepts it and uses again the control. Making it fast forward by ten years and finding out that he’s an obese, living by himself, his children grew up and he was divorced with his wife and Donna got married. After how many years, Michael becomes fit again, thanks to liposuction. It also reveals that Donna is undergoing chemotherapy because of her cancer. Their son Ben is working together with his father and told Michael about his father’s death. He rewinds the time when he’s still with his father and their happy moments. He refuses to have a hangout with him and Ben, ending up regretting it. He wants now to take him in a good place, and fast forwards the time to his son’s wedding. He hears his daughter Samantha calling the new husband of Donna “Dad.” When Michael wakes up, he is still ignoring Morty’s warnings the only the machine is keeping him alive. He collapses and Ben is with him and trying to keep his father alive and strong. And he told Ben that family comes first. That’s the time Morty picks and takes him up. A white surrounding appears and Michael wakes up. He found out the he’s on the bed and he is in present day. Thinking that the things happened was just dreams. On that day, he hangs out with his father. Securing that Donna, Samantha and Ben is still with him and feels that he is in his home. He just smile and throws away the remote on the bin.

Comment:
“Family comes first.” We must have time with our loved ones. We should always appreciate every single moment of our life especially with our families and be grateful of what He had given us, on what we have and others haven’t. We should be thankful and always be happy with anything that surrounds you and value what you have, because time cannot be rolled back and repeat it again with itself. Whether it is good or bad, we should accept the fact that it happens not for anything but for a reason. And these experiences will serve as your guide to learn from your mistakes, deal with, be a strong person to stand still in hardships but don’t forget that you live in the present with no regrets.