The Time Traveler's Wife

This weekend my family was in town, which was tons of fun. Now I cannot wait to see my mum. That has been TO long as well.

But anyway, my sis, dad and step mom went to go see “The Time Traveler's Wife”. I read the book about 4 years ago on a train ride from Milan to Sicily. My mum had given me the book to keep me entertained on the plane etc, but I was not really looking forward to reading it so I left it till I had read everything else. Once I finally sat down and read the book, I read it from beginning to end (the train ride was 21 hrs long so it wasn’t like I had to stop). The book was amazing, I cried (on a train full of people…a little embarrassing). I even wrote a blog about it, but that was while I was still only blogging on MySpace...happy to get away from that. Anyway I was watching TV a few months ago playing on the computer and I heard ONE line from the trailer, I looked up and said “The Time Traveler's Wife” BOOM CALLED IT! And then I started to tear up from that one line. I found it amazing that I knew without hearing more then 3 words that it was The Time Traveler's Wife.

So I have been waiting to go see it and when we decided to go see a chick flick I recommended it, and it was worth it. Obviously my boyfriend would have never gone to see it with me and I don't have tons of friends that are into going to movies, or have the time or ability to get away from the responsibilities of life to go to a movie for 2 1/2 hrs.

For the most part the movie went along with the book (for once they did destroy a completely good book with a really BAD movie.

It is not hard to guess what this movie is about. A guy named Henry (played by Eric Bana) has been able to travel forwards and backwards through time since the time he was six because of some strange genetic disorder. When his is in his twenties he is working as a research librarian in Chicago and a girl (Clare – played by Rachel McAdams) walks up to him and tells him she has been in love with him for her entire life and that they are destined to be together and that she knows his secret. Ever since Clare was a little girl, Henry has been appearing to her and watched her grow up. Henry and Clare get married and try to live a normal life even though he keeps vanishing and reappearing and he has no control over his life. Of course this causes relationship problems, more then what normal couples deal with. I don’t know how I would have been able to handle my husband vanishing for unknown amounts of time never knowing when he would come back.

The question is; if Henry hadn’t told Clare they were destined to be together would they have ended up together? Did Clare ever have a choice, when girls are young, they are suggestible...so growing up thinking one man is your one true love, do you ever look for another one?

This movie is a chick flick, and I am usually not one to go see chick flicks, but it is worth going to see, heck even my dad liked it. Even thought my boyfriend would never go to see this movie, if you like chick flicks and you have a man that will go with you or some girlfriends...GO SEE this movie. it is worth it!

I would of course recommend reading the book first, because for some reason they removed the ending of the book…which was really THE BEST ENDING and replaced it with something that wasn’t such a tear jerker true love type thing.