In fall 2020, I watched the Back to the Future trilogy on TV for the first time. I do not like time travel stories, so I had not watched the trilogy for a long time. I, however, came to want to watch Tenet, a time travel movie, when the movie was just released and it seemed intrigued. At the same time, I finally got interested in the Back to the Future series because watching the old time travel movies was good for preparation to watch the new one. Thus, I started to watch the trilogy.
The stories follow a high school boy named
Marty and an old man called Doc, who is a scientist and a best friend of Marty. Marty
gets in the time-traveling machine built by Doc and goes to the past and the
future. Michael J. Fox as Marty and Christopher Lloyd as Doc are a good
combination.
The first installment of the trilogy was released
in 1985. It is set in California. Marty gets into the time-traveling automobile
and is accidentally sent from 1985 to 1955 where he meets his young father and
mother who have not married yet. Marty's teenage mother played by Lea Thompson
especially looked really charming. I also was interested in the scene where Marty is
singing "Johnny B. Goode" playing the guitar on a stage when a member of the band call a
person appearing to be Chuck Berry in order to make the person listen to
Marty's performance. If the
scene was filmed today, it would cause a controversy about white supremacism.
The second installment was released in 1989.
Marty, Doc and Marty's girlfriend go from 1985 to 2015. I had to watch it before 2015. I laughed at bulky television sets and fax machines. Then I gave
up understanding the complicated time-series after the middle, so I
thought at that time that I would never understand the seemingly more complex time-series in Tenet, which I planned
to watch in several days.
The third was done in 1990. Marty returned to
1955 in Part II. He goes from 1955 to
1855. I laughed at the diminutive Marty calling himself Clint Eastwood, who is
far taller and used to be a Spaghetti Western star.