“We Live in Time” is a masterclass in writing love and loss

Left to right: “We Live in Time,” starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, explores themes of love, death and grief with its emotionally-gripping characters and realistic plot. Spoilers ahead. Trigger warnings for cancer, its complications and a graphic birth scene. “We Live in Time” presents itself as a standard love story, though it is anything but. Tobias (Andrew Garfield), a recent divorcé, meets Almut (Florence Pugh), an up-and-coming chef, when she hits him with her car. They fall in love, go through the trials and tribulations of making a life together and navigate a cancer diagnosis. The movie is split between the story of how they met and the modern day. “We Live in Time” has all the elements of a classic love story: a meet-cute, a reason why the couple would never work and a dramatic scene in which they finally get together. The audience gets to fall in love with Almut and Tobias over the course of years. They argue about career goals and whether or not they want children and a traditional family, finally choosing to be with each other in the end. However, not long after they get together, Almut is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She grapples with wanting to have kids now that that choice is being taken away from her. This is a sobering moment in the film as Almut has previously been staunchly against a traditional family. Almut and Tobias stay together through her treatment and once she is in remission, they have a daughter after rounds of IVF. For a while, all is well. Tobias and Almut raise their daughter, build up a home and restaurant. It is a picture-perfect love story ending, but this is not where the film ends. Years later, Almut’s ovarian cancer relapses. She has doubts about going through grueling treatment again and giving up her career as a chef. Tobias urges her to carry on with chemotherapy and put her career on hold to recover. Almut agrees to go through with chemotherapy, though she enters a high stakes cooking competition behind Tobias’ back. The treatment proves […]

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