Not to be mistaken, the concept is nice, but the execution sloppy.

Would make a fine Netflix series, but as a book did not work for me

And an independent woman learns that the secret to happiness is paying heads to her family’s wishes and giving up her own business.įourthly and lastly we have a woman ignoring health risks and being praised for that. While in the third story a man thinks of a gynecologist as a woman’s domain, where no man should venture. This story did have heart and I am not going say much negative about this one. In the second story a women just naturally sees herself as a nurse for her husband and is treated quite unappreciatively by him. I mean the geek boyfriend of a stunningly beautiful girl gets a job in the US (with a game studio of all things) and then his career is in her mind suddenly more accomplished than hers? She works in medical engineering for a listed firm she is a manager and can supposedly speak 6 languages, but can’t even normally articulate her needs and opinion to him apparently? And then she realizes that happiness lies on waiting for her non-communicative boyfriend to return. The first story feels so old fashioned, with a girl crying over being left by a guy and this just continues. To kick off in respect to my last sentence I mean the following: The underlying messaging that grated on me And the underlying morale of the four stories is basically highly conservative in my opinion. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?ĭespite a tantalizing premise the execution of time travel with ever added on new rules is sloppy. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.īut the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. What would you change if you could go back in time?

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