Sunday, January 24, 2010

Time Traveller's Wife




I don't usually watch romance movies...I mean...I do when friends asked me to or when the movie is really awesome (ehem...Twilight doesn't count). Anyways, I don't particularly love them or got really excited when they are released. I guess by far, my favourites would be the likes of 10 Things I hate about you (totally WHOA), Stardust (AWESOME-ness) and now, Time Traveller's Wife (not as good as the former but I'll say it's better than so many others).

It's somewhat bitter sweet and...unfortunately, it's all totally fated. Imagine, you are 8 and suddenly comes this adult into your life, so mysteriously intriguing. He visits you every now and then, talks to you like he has known you for life. Basically you don't have much of a choice not to fall in love with this guy, do you?

For a brownie point, he keeps appearing every now and then and seemingly is so into you as much as you are into him. You can just throw yourself to him and trust him completely...even when time-travelling seems so far-fetched that Einstein himself is managed to cope with only theories (but this is too much, genetic anomaly that got your whole body disappears into space -- that's so X-men like. Right, that's totally science fiction without facts. I mean...if I remember correctly, time-travelling is near impossible to human because your body will increase massively in mass when you move at the speed of light. Cool, right. You'd burst before you managed to travel in Time).

Anyways, like a phrase which I took out from a statement I'd got from FB:

Whatever you give a woman,she'll make greater,give her a smile she will give you her heart.

Claire gave Henry her heart and what's more, the Time Traveller has already given his heart in the very beginning! So, this tale is like the egg & chicken kinda thing because we do not know if it's because Henry had travelled in time and captivated Claire or it's actually Claire who took the initiative to court Henry. You see, if Henry never travelled back in Time, then the young Claire wouldn't get attracted by him so much that later on in life, she took the initiative to date him.
If she didn't date him, then probably Henry wouldn't have fallen in love and travel back in Time and meet young Claire.

Crazily impossible.

They try to beat the odds though. There's something romantic there because of the trust they have for each other. It's like suddenly at a moment, your better half disappeared to Neverland and lost his way back, sometimes for weeks. You'd be so at lost! You just have no idea where he went, if he is safe or doing good etc. You can't even call or email or text.
Heck, there's not even a future.

It was so funny that right at the moment before the wedding, Henry suddenly vanished. His best man was worried sick but thankfully, he came back; though appear to be much older. Well, unfortunately it doesn't always happen that way that he comes back just in time for an occasion.

The worst part of all was that his genes are inherited by his daughter, Elva (I don't quite like this name but I thought it's so suitable for the child..and it sounds not too bad afterall). By the way, Elva is so pretty! :)

So, okay, yeap, Elva has got the dad's genes and that's what made it so difficult for Claire to get pregnant (the baby keep 'travelling') and another hilarious plot is that Henry tried to prevent any more miscarriages by getting a vasectomy (imagine that...it is called SELFLESSNESS) but he himself knows better (ironically, he himself can't remember that part of the history..LMAO) because at a time, he went to the future and there you go, plan backfired, they had a love-making session in the car and Elva is on her way to Earth.

Right, Claire successfully carry Elva to a full term. Hehe..the line when Claire got pregnant after Henry got his vasectomy was superb: "It's not even cheating because that was you from the past XD"

Well, the plots are not all that fantastic, especially so if you have watched Stardust...this is nowhere near that quality but the themes are pretty beautiful and have got a meaning in them.

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