It is prevalent among all teens to think that their parents were never teenagers. They may have once been children, or perhaps, distinctly adult. But then how is it quite logical that they were once teenagers, and somehow don’t understand what their own kids are going through? This perspective is actually quite naive, as it suggests that there is actually something that can be learned about teenagers from being one. But “Back to the future” is in fact even more optimistic: there is a proposition that one can go back in the timeline when one’s parents were teens and support them just when they need it most.
The action of the film starts in the present day. The action takes place in contemporary times, and the main character is a teenager, Marty (Matthew J. Fox – Family Ties). This is of course not the case with his father or the mother. Coroner is his shield and comedian in hiding and Mother is swilling liquor in the kitchenette while they have their supper as if at a visitation at a malt. The only thing that allows Marty to remain calm is the peculiar, to put it mildly, doctor Brown (C. Lloyd), who occupies the inner recesses of his mind. It is quite another thing when it seems to Brown, he has reached the goal to travel in time, and one night in a deserted parking lot of the mall he showcases his contraption. Time machine movies have been made since creation. To our eternal memory, a first class, the space time continuum travel device, Brown’s time machine, will be distinctive looking in design and not at all what you typical.
The gadget works, and then, lo and behold, almost after another minute of surprises, Marty suddenly finds himself transported to thirty years ago when the shopping mall was a farmer’s field (this is when a farmer rather amusingly thinks that the gullwing De Lorean is a spaceship). In other words, Marty goes into town dressed in 1985 clothes, and the inhabitants of the town look at his down jacket and in disbelief, wonder why he is strutting about in a life jacket.
One of the recurrent jokes of the film series “Back to the Future” is how much the town has developed over thirty years (for instance, the year 1985 pornographic film house played Ronald Reagan movie in the year 1955). But Marty begins to learn that many of the changes go deeper than that when he, for example, takes a seat at a lunch counter next to his teenage father. Since the film has so much pleasure in conceiving the absurdities and problems which arise when a child meets his parents, I will not give too much information of how the plot unfolds. I will not even go to the goosebumps dealing with the scene when Marty finds out that his mother has a ‘thing’, for him. One of the readers’ greatest pleasures of the movie is the reader’s much pleasant shock.
Robert Zemeckis, director of the film “Back to the Future”, does not only possess a great comic vision but also some of the light humor, reminiscent of Frank Capra the filmmaker. The movie actually is similar to one of Capra’s films “It’s a Wonderful Life” than other, more orthodox, time travel films. Instead of a character who starts in the midst of action and is propelled until a stage change is reached. Consider Steven Spielberg whose name appears as the executive producer of the film, this is the second shot of the three whose productions were directed by Spielberg during summer (it is placed in between ‘The Goonies and ‘Explorers’), and one Wonders, since when has Spielberg turned into a great studio boss, who knows who should be hired for which film. In this instance, joy and common sense married to great fun ultimately solves the problem.
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