Time travel is a common tool in science fiction movies, such as "Back to the Future" and "Terminator" in the early years, and in recent years like "Interstellar", and even this year's "Reunion 4".
In the above works, crossing is often the means for the protagonists to achieve their goals, and when the crossing becomes pure and uncontrollable, will this feeling still be wonderful?
When you learned that you would die unexpectedly after 5 years and could not change, how would you feel about spending these 5 years?
Today, more Jun takes you to relive this classic drama film that crosses the theme: "Time Traveler's Wife".
When Henry was 5 years old, in a car accident, he accidentally discovered his ability to travel through time and space, but he himself could not control the time and place of the crossing, and after each crossing, he would return after a while, but how long it would take, he himself did not know.
In this accident, Henry's mother died, and his father fell into a low point in his life.
Later, Henry also tried countless times, but could not change the results that had already happened, and could not save his mother.
Every time Henry crossed, his body would disappear, and it felt like a sudden stray shift, or getting up too quickly.
After many years, Henry is 28 years old, living a decadent life, and working as a book sorter in books.
One day, while he was at work, he met a beautiful girl who was excited to see Henry, which made Henry wonder. The girl is called Claire, 20 years old, and from her performance, it can be seen that she knows Henry, but Henry is not half impressed with her.
The two agreed to eat together in the evening to explain why.
In the evening, at the restaurant, Claire explains everything to Henry: she knows Henry is a time traveler, and when she was 6 years old, she first met Henry, when Henry was a little older than he is now (28 years old), after which Henry often crossed back and told her when she was about to disappear when she would return, and Claire waited for him on time. Henry grew up with Claire until Claire was 18 years old, the last time she saw Henry.
After two years, Claire was certainly excited to finally see Henry again.
After dinner, Henry takes Claire home, and the two are together, unlike his previous girlfriend, Claire knows everything about him, even more than he knows himself, and Henry's life begins again.
Claire takes Henry back to her apartment and meets her friends.
The first time he arrives at Claire's house, Henry looks through her diary, much to Claire's anger, but Henry explains that he wants to see from Claire's diary the time when he traveled back to find her, because he wants to tell the childhood Claire so that she doesn't have to wait blindly.
(It turns out that this is a reincarnation: Henry remembers the exact time of his journey back from Claire's diary, and then tells the childhood Claire about this time, Claire records this time in her diary, and when she grows up, young Henry will find the time he traveled from her diary... ）
After two years together, the two were married (Henry 30, Claire 22).
What makes people cry and laugh is that while the wedding is preparing, Henry once again can't control his body and disappears.
At this critical juncture, Henry, who was a little older a few years later, crossed back and saved the scene. The two had a successful wedding.
At the dinner, the 30-year-old Henry returned, claire had mixed feelings, living with the 30-year-old Henry, proposing to herself was also the 30-year-old Henry, and the wedding with her was the older and more attractive Henry. And Henry was a little jealous of this, yes, eating his own vinegar.
Although the relationship between the two is good, but the life after marriage is far less smooth than they imagined, the most fatal thing is that Henry's more and more frequent "accidental crossings", sometimes even disappeared for more than ten days.
This is undoubtedly the biggest test for Claire, part of the married life belongs to happiness, part of the time belongs to the aimless waiting for the husband to return, and the other part of the time belongs to the fear that the husband disappears. She waited for him since she was 6 years old, but she didn't expect that getting married was still an endless wait.
A few years later, Henry took advantage of the benefits of traveling to the future to bring back lottery numbers, easily won the jackpot, and bought a big house. Life seems to be getting better.
One day, Henry's people were warmly preparing food at home, when suddenly, the future Henry crossed over, lying naked on the floor, with a gunshot wound. Before the crowd could react, he disappeared.
They were all very shocked, especially Henry himself, that is, one day in the future, he would be seriously injured, and he did not know what the outcome would be, because he could not control himself to travel into the future to find out.
Claire also expressed concern for Henry, as she had seen Henry of different ages during her childhood and adolescence, but had never seen him in his 40s. In other words, either Henry found a way to end the crossing, or Henry didn't live past 40.
And, Claire told him she was pregnant. Henry let go of his fear in an instant, and was filled with hope for the future.
A few weeks later, Claire miscarried. The two were in pain.
Claire was later pregnant twice, but both ended up miscarriaged. Henry understood that perhaps the fetus had been inherited and "traveled" from the stomach to another time or place, in short, they had little hope of having a child.
But Claire is reluctant to accept the fact that she wants children, she wants a loved one who has been with her and will not suddenly disappear, and she wants a part of Henry to be able to stay with her when he disappears.
Henry went through a ligature to make Claire accept this fact, which made Claire very angry and reluctant to talk to him for a while. (Henry 38, Claire 30)
A few weeks later, Claire's state was somewhat abnormal, and Henry noticed it, and he asked Claire what had happened, and Claire confessed: I am pregnant.
Henry was confused, wasn't I lyingled?
Claire goes on to explain that after Henry's ligature, one day Claire and Henry, who had crossed over from the past, did a little exercise.
Henry's heart is mixed, first, he does not want Claire to experience another miscarriage, and secondly, is he green by himself?
Claire's belly is getting bigger and bigger, but Henry is still not happy, and he feels that he may have another miscarriage at any time.
Until one day, he crossed again: he woke up from an unfamiliar environment, dressed and panicked and prepared to leave, but was stopped by a little girl, who excitedly called him "Daddy".
The little girl, named Alba, is the daughter of Henry and Claire, is now 10 years old, and she also has the ability to travel through time and space, sometimes even freely. Henry is happy to see his daughter, but he also learns bad news from her daughter: he will die when she is 5 years old.
Returning to reality, Henry tells Claire about seeing her daughter in the future, but hides the fact that he will die in 5 years.
The daughter was born, the family is very happy, but the time is like a white colt, 5 years, a blink of an eye.
On Alba's 5th birthday, the future Alba crossed back and told her the fact that her father was going to die, and 5-year-old Abal was sad.
Claire eventually found out the news from her daughter, which she couldn't accept.
Although Henry tried his best to comfort his wife and daughter, no one was more afraid than himself, he knew that he would die soon after, and he knew that he was shot and died, but he could not change, and he did not know how to face his impending death.
Some time later, Christmas came, and Henry called many people to the house.
Henry confessed to Claire that he would die tonight, calling so many people because he didn't want Claire to face the scene alone.
With that, Henry disappeared, and then he woke up in the snow in the woods, and before he could react, he was accidentally hit by the hunter.
Then disappeared again and collapsed at home, and in the company of relatives and friends, Henry gasped.
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In later days, Claire and her daughter Alba still see Henry from time to time, which Henry used to cross over. Every time they came, the family could get together again, but this time, Henry never revealed to them the time of each crossing, because Claire had been waiting for his appearance for half of her life, and he didn't want her to wait, she should look forward and live well.
Some people say that we are not time travelers, so we must grasp the present, grasp all the happiness that can be grasped, and live in the present; some people say that each of us is a time traveler, but time is always moving forward, and the beauty that time travel can see, we can also see, but we ignore it.
No matter what kind of theory, looking at reality, living in the present is the most important, we don't know who we will love and marry in the future, we don't know when we will die, but isn't it more exciting?
Without knowing where the end point is, we can pay attention to the scenery along the way.