Why I Learned Nothing From Click: A Click Romanticization

First things first, I love Adam Sandler and there will be no slander allowed.

Click is a movie from 2006, about Michael Newman, played by Adam Sandler, trying to figure out how to fit everything he wanted to do in a single day. Something I know we can probably all relate to. His dreams can become a reality when he walks into a Bed, Bath and Beyond and talks to Christopher Walken who gives him a remote that controls time.

The remote can rewind, fast forward, pause, mute, etc. All the fun functions of a regular remote you probably have at home, but while yours can only pause your show, he can pause the world around him without him having to stop.

Now the point and overall message of the movie is to enjoy the moment and live your life to the fullest, don’t worry about the future, live in the now, and so on. All of which I can get on board and agree with, but at the same time, no.

As I was crying in my room last night, TMI I know I’m sorry, all I could think about was the fact that one day I’m going to be over whatever is making me cry and it’s going to be an amazing feeling. At that same moment, I remembered Click and wished that I had the remote. I wouldn’t mind going into “autopilot” for however long it takes to get over the intense feeling I was feeling and be in a better place.

There is a scene where Adam and his wife in the movie are fighting and planning on getting a divorce, without wanting to cope with what was going on he pressed the remote and wished to jump to when the fight was over. He accidentally jumped too many years in the future, as he was much older and still divorced. So I guess he still didn’t get what he pictured and wanted but what if I could?

Maybe that’s just entirely delusional because as we see Adam trying to jump over and over again, he makes his situation significantly worse each time. This again is the point of the movie. I always loved the saying that the grass isn’t greener on the other side, but is in fact green where you water it. If you put in the time, effort, and care, you could essentially have very green grass and happiness. Lately, it’s just been very hard to get up the energy to even go outside and water the grass. I feel like I’m in the drought of my life with no projected day of rain.

I bet Adam’s character felt a lot like this too. One day in the future when I’m much older I’ll read this post back and feel very solemn for my past self “going tf thru it," but I will have a big sigh of relief knowing that I’m very much past it and as tempting as it sounds to press the fast forward button because I know that feeling will be nice but I just live every day instead. This will make the journey and its inevitable end that much more satisfying.

Thank you Adam, you legend.