A man suffering from "chronic time dislocation" Henry (Eric Barner) was in a car accident on the highway with his mother on Christmas Eve when he was six years old.
Just as the other party is about to crash into them, Henry accidentally activates the ability to travel through time and space, allowing him to escape from the car and avoid death. But after traveling through time and space, he stood not far from the scene of the incident and watched his mother die in a car accident.
As he grew older, Henry continued to travel through time. He couldn't decide when to start, where to go, and when to end, so he could only let this special ability take him to a time-hopping.
Until one day, he traveled through time and space to a large mansion. There, on the prairie, he meets a little girl, Claire (Rachel McAdams).
Several unexpected visits made Claire very interested in this time traveler, and such an encounter also made the fate of the two begin to meet...
At first, I will think that this male protagonist is quite characteristic, but in fact, it is a durable type, and the more you look at it, the more handsome it is, hahahahaha.
Of course, he also interpreted the role of time traveler very well, and the helplessness and dazedness of each time traveling through time and space were very in place. I especially like the emotional drama part, and several times I am about to be melted by his affection.
Rachel McAdams has always been a beautiful and powerful actor, especially the interpretation of love scenes is particularly impressive. In the play, he and Eric play a pair of lovers, facing their partner is actually a person who can travel through time and space, she expresses a woman's dedication to love very vividly.
I don't particularly like romance story movies, and I've heard the name "Time Traveler's Wife" for a long time, and it just so happens that the school library has this film, so I borrowed it to see it.
"Traveling through time" has always been a very popular subject, but how to shoot well is a big problem. Because traveling through time and space often involves "parallel time and space" or "changing the future" and so on, just like if I travel through time and come five days ago and then kill someone, then the fate of that person or person who is related to him will be completely different after five days.
However, the audience is often dizzy by such an intricate chronological sequence. Fortunately, the Time Traveler's Wife does not have such a problem.
Henry once said in the film that he can travel through time and space to the past, to the future, but he can't prevent anything from happening, and the example he gives is the car accident on Christmas night, he has returned to that point in time many times, but he can't stop the car accident.
Therefore, this film will not make the audience look at the timeline and will not be confused, of course, there are not too many bugs for everyone to complain about.
Although it revolves around such a theme as traveling through time and space, it is still a simple and ordinary love story. The performance of the picture does not have too many dazzling sound and light effects, except for Henry's some sci-fi in the moments through time and space, the rest is to maintain an ordinary and warm simple picture sense.
The love scene part is the biggest highlight of the film, but because of the addition of some sci-fi elements of "traveling through time and space", the film will not be too eight strands and dull, and some laughs will really make the audience involuntarily raise the corners of their mouths.
The description of love is very thorough, from the sweetness of the two people meeting and then falling in love at the beginning, to the gap and quarrel caused by the male protagonist often disappearing through time and space in the later stage, the problems that these love will experience are clearly and carefully expressed.
And I also really like the description of "family affection" in the play. It is mentioned at the beginning of the story that Henry's mother died in a car accident when he was six years old, and although he returned to that point in time several times, he could only stand from a distance and watch things repeat themselves.
Once, Henry traveled through time to the subway car, and in the distance he saw a woman sitting by the window, his mother. Back to the time when his mother was still alive, Henry was already an adult over thirty years old, and the moment he took the initiative to talk to his mother, my tears had already burst into tears...
In short, this is a film with both crying and laughing, and it is easy to enter the inner emotions of the characters in the process of watching, and I will also have ups and downs with the deduction of the plot.
For example, when I watched it, I would constantly think in my head, especially in the ending song after the end of the film, which could make people calm down and savor the emotions brought by just two hours.
Maybe I also yearn for this simple and ordinary happiness, so I will be particularly touched when watching.
Although you are often missing, I will still sit on that prairie and wait for you to come back.
"Because who called me your wife?"
Sincerely recommend, Time Traveler's Wife!