Some of you have heard of, or seen, Click with Adam Sandler playing the main character Michael (I don't know the last name).
IF YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN CLICK, AND DON'T WANT A SPOILER, I SUGGEST YOU SKIP THIS WHOLE SUMMARY!
Michael works as an architect, but his work life and family life collide with each other. Michael, as a kid, had never been quite as rich as some of his peers have been. He works hard on each architect project, practically exhausting himself each night. His family is left behind, his wife and parents worry about him overworking and pushing his boundaries. Wishing for a break, he takes a drive around town after rudely yelling to his wife. He stops by Bed Bath and Beyond and flops onto one of the beds sleepily. Opening his eyes, and scanning the store, he sees a door titled, BEYOND. Walking in, the audience has a view of a lab, and a mad-looking scientist working on one of his inventions. Michael walks in, and asks for a universal remote - since he struggles with which remote control works what (like, a control for the T.V., garage door, the living room fan, etc.).
The mad scientist, named Morty, takes him through the colossal storage room, where he shows Michael a literal universal remote. A remote that controls the holder's universe.
Some thought: I think we all know that a device that possesses such power will be abused by the beholder, even if the beholder may be the wisest man to ever live.
Michael does not yet realize what the remote controls when Morty presents it to him. Giving it to him for free, Morty shows Michael out.
Now you can guess what happens after that right? I don't want to waste your time with such a long summary of a movie.
Anyway, when Michael holds the remote, he lives the life he chose to live: to be notified of his hard work, and live in luxury. He does not spend time with his family, and as he speeds up his life, he loses in touch with his son, daughter, wife, and parents. With the help of Morty, he looks back on his life, and how his preference of his work over his family affected them, and how he severed each fragile link to his children, wife, father, and mother.
Each flashback of his life showed him how much he missed out on his life since he was so focused on his work at the time. Some of it was heartbreaking, like the part where his father had visited him during work, asking if he would like to go on a vacation. Michael refuses, hardly listening to his father. To persuade his son, Michael's father brings up a quarter, telling him he will tell Michael the secret to the magic trick if he comes along the trip. Michael is furious with his father for distracting him during work.
"CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I'M WORKING OLD MAN? I'VE KNOWN ALL ALONG HOW YOU'VE DONE THAT TRICK! NOW GO AWAY."
Hiding his pain, Michael's father rubs his son's head, and says, "I love you son."
Walking away, he begins to cry.
The old man was delicate, it hurt to see his feelings crushed by his own son. A favorite trick has just lost all its magic, once Michael showed his father that he knew how it went all those years.
Morty watches over Michael, watching him learn his lesson that family always comes first.
Michael ages over time, having an artery burst during his son's wedding. By then he had learned his lesson.
When he sees Benjamin - his son - at the hospital visiting him, he learns that Ben had skipped his honeymoon to work. Before Michael could say anything, Ben leaves the hospital. Michael did not want his son to follow in his path the way he did, so he runs after Ben and leave the machines that keep him alive.
He runs in the rain after his son and daughter. Falling down on the cement, he screams Ben's name. Ben turns to see his father reaching for him, and hastens to his father.
Michael chose to die, and his last words to Ben is "Family comes first."
Michael dies under his family's umbrellas.
Michael awakes to find himself still sleeping on the Bed Bath and Beyond bed he sprawled himself on. Waking up to find it was just a dream, he screamed and whooped for joy. He was so happy that he had the dream, he wakes his wife and children totally reformed.
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Sometimes people just put their work as a privilege in front of their family. It just interests me that if someone does realize their work isn't as important as their family, and they continue to leave their family behind, they don't just click the rewind button to see what they've missed out on the past few days, weeks, months, or even years.
I just wanted to put it out there for you, :) Love your family always
