The Time Travellers Wife

Do you think that to be able to travel across time is an awesome power? But what if you couldn't control it?

This is the situation that happens to the man in the movie "The Time Travellers Wife". Well, this movie is already four months old, and I only happened to see it recently.

For your information, it's not really those lame time machine type of story. The male main cast, Eric Bana who starred as Henry De Tamble, is disrupted by some type of genetic impairment which causes him to travel across time out of his control. And the bad thing is, everytime he travels his clothes doesn't, and he has to learn all the basic thievery skills in order to break into others' house to dress himself. This is really unique.

Because of this, he suffers. He has to see the death of his mother over and over again, his wife miscarriage for several times as the foetus also receives the genetic impairment and travels across the time, he has to foresee his death yet unable to do anything, he is unable to stay with his loved ones when they need him and he has to isolate himself as he is just too weird.

But the good thing is, he met with his true love, Clare Abshire (cast by Rachel McAdams). At his older age, he travels back to his wife's childhood to expose himself to her for the first time, which in turn Clare exposed herself to him when he was younger. It's kind of like the egg and chicken question don't you think?

And after gone through so many obstacles, they are still able to born their child Alba, which possesses a better version of chrono-impairment gene. Sometimes their daughter can deny the time travel, which can reduce a lot of pains due to this unwanted disease.

By the way, the way he dies really pissed me off. He is actually killed by his father-in-law during time travel. WTH. T.T

I really like this movie, as the storyline is unique, everything is seemed to be destined and Rachel McAdams has acted out the character so lively. It wets my eyes, but of course no tears dropped. =P