"About time" is my favorite movie. It's about time travel. And it have some incosistencies about mechanics of how it work. But I don't see it as mistakes.

I choose to belive that this is "lost in translation". I'm not able to time travel. I don't have the capability to understand it. So they have to metaforized it down for me.

Telling someone who can't see that the "blue is like a cols water, yellow is like a sanshine on your face and red is lime rage or intense love" would work for the purpose of the story you are telling them. But its not ideally accurate.