Introduction: Life is full of signs, if you can't fall into love in reality, then you may as well fall into the movie first, there is true love and tears rolling in fictional movies.
"Time Traveler's Wife" is a fantasy love film directed by Robert Svenck in 2009, adapted from the novel of the same name by philosophical writer Audrey Viny Fenig, which tells the story of a man with time dislocation who is forced to travel randomly through time and space, Henry, who accompanies his lover Enclair until the two meet and fall in love, overcoming obstacles to marriage and family.
At the beginning of the film, the little boy Henry and his mother sing songs in the moving car, the car accident occurs and the mother dies, the little boy Henry and the adult Henry meet for the first time, and Henry's ability to travel through time and space appears. The film shifts from childhood Henry to adult Henry into the narrative story line, uncontrollably traveling to the past or future at some point in time, Is a bystander and participant who wanders outside the linear sequence of events, the space traversed is influenced by The subconscious of Henry's brain, henry who lost his mother in childhood often travels to the past before his mother's death to talk to his mother, and as he grows up, his sustenance is on his lover Claire.
Each crossing without warning brought Henry a lot of trouble, the disappearance of the wedding, the long-term lack of companionship for his wife, and so on. After each crossing, Henry, who is naked, has to face the strange eyes of others and the unknown that may cross again at any time, and the portrayal of Henry's character image in the film is an uneasy and cowardly character, and this flawed character makes the image of Henry's character more full and vivid.
The film breaks down the fragmentation of time through parallel montage techniques, and two Henrys appear in the non-linear time narrative structure, the young Henry who is crossing the future on the real timeline, and Henry who always returns to the past in middle age. The film takes young Henry as the main timeline, from the young Henry who grew up in childhood Henry, met his future loving partner Claire, Henry and Claire's encounter is doomed, this inevitable occurrence can not be separated from another Henry, middle-aged Henry constantly returns to the past in the childhood Claire's conversation. Behind the young Henry and the elderly Henry are two timelines, the young Henry corresponds to the time dimension based on Claire's existence, and the middle-aged Henry corresponds to the life development line of Henry's self.
Some of the lines in the film are metaphorical and up to the center, Claire's father and Henry casually talk about hunting, Henry says that I have always been a prey, Claire's father said that "people have to learn to change identities, sometimes they are prey and sometimes they are hunters." For Henry himself, who did not meet and fall in love with Claire, he was a wanderer who was banished by time, naked into the unknown world after each crossing, forced to steal clothes and cover his body, and chased and beaten by police and strangers. Henry's final death is also shot by the hunter, in the timeline of Henry's self, he is always a prey controlled by time, forced to travel through time and space, and finally shot by time.
In the relationship with Claire, Henry exists as a "hunter", and the manipulation dominates everything, while the travel of multiple Henrys in different timelines is based on Claire as the coordinate axis, and the multi-linear space-time is recombined to piece together Claire's real time and space. And the motivation and purpose of all this travel through time and space, as Claire said in the film, "deliberately let a little girl really fall in love with you". Henry single-handedly raised the future Claire, claire, who is still a little girl, meets the uninvited visitor Henry on the grass, and henry who appears as a future lover accompanies Claire to grow up, until Claire meets Henry on the main line of real time in the library, Henry's time and space travel is to accompany Claire's love.
The film is based on the concept of "time", the age of Henry in the free space of time changes, from youth to middle age to old age, and the cause and effect of this closed loop begins from the meadow behind Claire's house, which is also a creative cycle that the film is not noticed, Henry from stepping into the green grass to finally walking into the snowy grass in the unknown time, the film gives the display of this snow-covered meadow empty shot, indicating that the place of beginning is also the place of the end, and Henry who is walking to the end of death has lost his life. But it has stepped out of time to gain the eternity of love.
This love beyond time and space, the price paid is the inability to wait, waiting for the lover Claire is also waiting for her established fate, from the beginning of the acquaintance of the two, waiting for Henry to appear, waiting for himself to grow up, waiting to become Henry's wife, waiting for the child with the two to become a mother, Henry is still firmly waiting to meet again after his death. Behind the film conveys a gender difference, in the traditional relationship between men and women, women are more often in the role of "waiting", born around men. Men tend to be self-centered and have more independence and time.
As the wife of a time traveler, Claire's concept of marriage and love is to wait for her lover while having her own free space and the right to choose, not an appendage of men. After Henry's death, Claire, while holding hope for Henry's deep love, still loves herself and lives, taking care of her children to complete her career. The good concept of love and marriage conveyed by the movie is also like this, under the premise of mutual respect, having each other's personal time and space can solve their own "time chaos" and deal with it well.
The isomorphism of love and film lies in the fact that both have the potential to become an event location, allowing those caught up in it to experience real experiences. What makes "The Space Traveler's Wife" unique is not only the closed-loop concept of time in the film, not a series of chain reactions caused by behavioral intervention changes like the butterfly effect, but a space-time experience that is always full of possibilities but cannot be changed. What is more unique is that the film shows eternity beyond the limitations of time, that is, the main theme of the film, the eternity of love and the arrangement of destiny.