Time traveler’s wife

[Qbone]

I found this book by chance when I had some research on John Titor (I am sure that you all familiar with) a couple of years ago.

The book was great reading (the idea of the travelling in time by gene disorders was new and refreshing to me) and last night after watching it on silver screen have found that it was even better than the book itself.

Please don’t expecting too much of Sci-Fi of it because of the elements of time travelling “attempting to make such movies usually is full of loop holes and dilemmas“by comparison however it is some how similar to “the lake house 2006”.

Great entertainment and worth every penny invested.

 

[Laura]

I read this one over a year ago and I loved it too! I think that the author did a superb job dealing with some of the issues of time travel and if she had tried to get into anything technical or SciFi, it would have been way too long. Most of all, it is a love story of superb dimensions! (no pun intended)

 

[Erna]

Most of all, it is a love story of superb dimensions!

That's for sure! I balled my eyes out. That last scene in the book has always stayed with me.



Spoiler:

I'll never forget how upset I was the moment I realised that he had already died all those years ago.

 

[Qbone]

Thank you Laura for your insightful comment on this post, please do watch this movie whenever you have time for it, I am sure you’ll be surprised.

 

[Aliana]

I read the book last year and finally saw the movie today. The first time I saw the book; I was in an airport but already had too many books in my bag, so made a mental note to buy it later. Oddly, a friend gave me the book a few weeks later, as a complete surprise. She had just read it, and thought I would enjoy it as well. And yes, I loved it.

Today though, I had the strangest feeling when I left the theater – like I had gotten a cosmic message in a bottle. A bit hard to describe but similar to the feelings I had when I first saw The Truman Show, Matrix and V, although those movies felt creepier.

What is also a bit odd is that a book I had apparently ordered through interlibrary loan ages ago finally came in. I had put in the request so long ago that I completely forgot that I had done so. It is called The New Time Travelers by David Toomey. It’s supposed to be an overview for laymen, but still over my head, unfortunately. Strange times…..

 

[henry]

I read the book, too, and loved it.

Missed the movie, though, when it passed through town. Will have to check it out on DVD.

 

[Zadius Sky]

I saw the movie last week. It wasn't too great, but it was good. I wish they add more details to it from the book. After the movie, I was really missing the details. It also felt "short" but at least, I've cried. It's interesting that Brad Pitt was an executive producer of this film, though.

I absolutely love the book better. I've enjoyed reading alot of time travel books, but this one grabbed my heart.

 

[Kila]

The Time Travelers Wife

I saw this last night. And for some reason I just found it really disturbing. But I am wondering if it doesn't depict 4D reality. The way time isn't linear and he fades in and out of 'time'. And the reason he does this is a 'condition' some sort of genetic anomaly.

 

[Zadius Sky]

Re: The Time Travelers Wife

There's already a thread about this film.

I didn't see the same way as in the film being "disturbing." It's based on the book by the same title. I've found the book to be interesting as it related to genetics/time traveling ("genetic anomaly"). As for it being depicted as a 4D reality, it's one way to look at it because in 4D, we might have that similar "genetic anomaly," so to speak, but not with a specific "desire" (e.g., within Clare's lifetime as seen in the book/film), osit.

fwiw.

 

[Beau]

Re: The Time Travelers Wife

There's alreay a thread about this film.

I've merged it with the existing thread.

 

[Hildegarda]

It was an amazing story, very gripping. A very fresh take on two big questions -- the nature of a powerful feeling of recognition and remembering while meeting your true love, and the determinism vs open future. The main character keeps saying how everything already happened and is therefore predetermined, and yet you see how he keeps "determining" the future through his time travel, sort of "sewing" his life, hers and everything else together, to the end. Just amazing.

Niffenegger's second novel though, "Her fearful symmetry", is not nearly as good (it just came out recently). The author has a what I call "an experience handicap", when she is too obviously and exclusively drawing from her own actual life experiences for her writing. A life of a single person makes for plenty stories to tell, but just doesn't seem to be enough to fill out many full-length detailed novels.
fwiw,

 

[Kila]

I didn't see the same way as in the film being "disturbing." It's based on the book by the same title. I've found the book to be interesting as it related to genetics/time traveling ("genetic anomaly"). As for it being depicted as a 4D reality, it's one way to look at it because in 4D, we might have that similar "genetic anomaly," so to speak, but not with a specific "desire" (e.g., within Clare's lifetime as seen in the book/film), osit.

I dunno...disturbing..hmmm I don't know if that is even the right word. I just had this really weird feeling after watching it. Anyway it was pretty compelling and very sad.

You know what ...now that I am typing this I am remembering that during many of the past life regressions I have had there is sort of a theme. I am in love with someone who goes away or for some reason I can't be with. Sometimes I wait for that person and they end up dying or never returning. In one life I kill myself..and then from the other side see that the person actually returned to find me dead. Very Romeo and Juliet kind of stuff. So I dunno...these type of love stories always kind of disturb me I guess.

I'll have to read the book.... since you all think its really good. The whole time travel thing...I do find that fascinating.

Another movie I saw as a kid that had the same impression on me was Somewhere in Time.

 

[shijing]

I dunno...disturbing..hmmm I don't know if that is even the right word. I just had this really weird feeling after watching it. Anyway it was pretty compelling and very sad.

You know what ...now that I am typing this I am remembering that during many of the past life regressions I have had there is sort of a theme. I am in love with someone who goes away or for some reason I can't be with. Sometimes I wait for that person and they end up dying or never returning. In one life I kill myself..and then from the other side see that the person actually returned to find me dead. Very Romeo and Juliet kind of stuff. So I dunno...these type of love stories always kind of disturb me I guess.

Another movie I saw as a kid that had the same impression on me was Somewhere in Time.

*spoiler alert*

I had the same reaction to both of the above movies -- very intense sadness because of having to face loss, through the medium of these stories. I didn't feel disturbed by The Time Traveler's Wife either, but it was certainly a tear-jerker at the end, particularly the scene where the main character knows that he will die that night and he is saying good-bye to all of his loved ones, and you can see the fear in his eyes. The part where his daughter travels back through time to comfort and prepare her younger self for her father's death was very touching too.

I think it is quite understandable that you would have an especially visceral reaction to this kind of story given what you describe above about your past-life regressions, the common theme of which seems to be the premature loss of a loved one. I think you've identified at least one reason for your reaction to the movie.