After a confusing set of events involving some mild travel, the Still Time ending explained details it all. Also known as Era Ora, This Italian film is directed by Alessandro Aronadio and stars Barbara Ronchi, Edoardo Leo, Mario Sgueglia, Raz Degan, Andrea Purgatori, Francesca Cavallin and Massimo Wertmuller, alongside other cast members. It runs for 108 minutes and is written by Alessandro Aronadio and Renato Sannio.
Still Time Ending Explained
Dante is coming to a new year’s party trying to meet his fiancee and kisses her as soon as he sees her. However, after coming up, he sees that it is not her. His fiancee slaps him and walks away but the person he kissed is up for partying and getting some drinks here for fun. It then cuts to the morning of his birthday in 2010, where the girl from the party, Alice wakes him up to a song, dance and some insane pancakes.
However, he can barely make sense of any of it because he’s late to go to work and she quietly changed his alarm as well. He’s late but he promises to come back for lunch. When he gets to the office, his colleague reminds him that he has a presentation during lunchtime. So while Alice is planning a surprise party for Dante at lunchtime, he is stuck at work and literally only comes back when he has to fix the broken bathroom door.
At the party, he is excited to see so many of his friends and people, including his best friend Valerio who has been drinking the shelves off. However, when Dante wakes up the next morning, he sees Alice with a swollen belly and is confused for a good five minutes before she breaks it down for him like he’s a two-year-old child. He tries to make sense of what is happening to him, but he is panicking so much that Alice asks him to get some rest, when he wakes up again, he sees Alice in a normal body but a baby is crying in another room.
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Dante doesn’t know how to handle the fact that he is now a father who has never met his daughter Galadriel and didn’t even know she was a daughter or a son in the first place. Later, he is washing his face trying to come to terms with these changes once again when he sees that he has grown a moustache. This time when he goes out, he sees that his daughter is playing in the backyard and has started walking. She calls him Papa and he becomes too excited until Alice reminds him that ‘Papa’ was her eighth word, saying that she clearly sees her father less enough to place him eighth.
The next year, we see Alice and him trying to get guidance counselling. Alice explains how she and Galadriel feel so far away by drawing a spatial boundary in the doctor’s office. Later, Dante also loses it and explains that he earns money and does these things for her. She can paint and do these incredible art things because he pays for them. This sours an already breaking relationship. The next year, we see Alice in her own home separated from him. He calls her over to discuss something important.
However, before she can come, his coworker from the beginning, Francesca, gets out of the shower, enlightening him that they have been hooking up for six months. He asks her to be in the washroom and not flush to get any attention. Alice comes over and they talk, they start talking about being together again and finding love but some, unfortunately placed heels and ill-timed flush change all that. She leaves in deep distress along with Francesca who tells him that she will not be entertaining any of his idiocy anymore.
Cut to the next year when she walks into the house with some drinks after distributing them to the people in the backyard. He is exceedingly confused and in explaining this, Francesca gets annoyed and leaves him. For good this time. He goes back to Alice’s place where he sees Omar, her new boyfriend who has become a part of the family now. This bothers Dante but he doesn’t say anything. Instead, he takes his daughter Galadriel on a day out, to have fun.
In the next year, we see him meet his best friend Valerio. He has cancer and Dante almost thinks he’s joking but is incredibly concerned for his friend’s health once he finds out. They spend time together and part ways with Dante giving his friend a big hug. The next year, he goes and meets his father who has been threatening to jump off a building. This is one of the moments where we see how his childhood experiences affected his life right now and this last conversation with his father was closure in the best way.
The next year, he still finds himself at his father’s place, but everything is packed up. He finally remembers Valerio again and calls him up to make sure he is at least still alive. Valerio is surprised that his friend has been calling him when he’s right there. Dante once again gives him another big hug and now that they’re all healthy, they go on the roller coaster which was a whole blast. After this pivotal fun year, he calls his daughter and Alice to come over so that they can go together.
However, before he can do any of this, he goes back to his office and takes all his vacation days all at once. So when he comes back home, Alice and Galadriel are also receiving a gift. The duo make their way home and Dante has one of the best days of his life. He isn’t expecting much to change but when he wakes the next morning, he hasn’t skipped a year and Alice and Galadriel are still home making him birthday pancakes. We know that they’re not together yet, but there is some potential for something to happen.
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