By “The Time Traveler’s Wife” had the right amount of drama, romance, science fiction, and mystery to keep an audience awake and alert. The modern love story starring Eric Bana (Henry) and Rachael McAdams (Clare) is an adaptation of the best-selling book by Audrey Niffenegger.
Henry, a librarian in Chicago, suffers from a genetic disorder called Chrono Impairment that causes him to vanish and travel through time. As he travels through time he is unable to control when or where he ends up. The one thing he does have control of is returning to places where big events occurred in his life. Henry becomes lonely and depressed, jumping through time and space, until one day when he meets a little girl named Clare: a big event.
At the time, Clare is only a little girl but as the movie progresses so does her life, giving the audience someone to base time off of. She is an artist who falls in love with Henry and manages to maintain as much of a relationship as possible with a time traveler. Their relationship is filled with love, understanding, and patience that helps them get through everything.
At times this movie is difficult to follow but it all ends up making sense. Once the audience pieces together that older Henry has more control of where and when he travels through time while younger Henry has not learned to control himself, it becomes easier to follow the story line.
The movie does not follow the same story as the book but it seems apparent that these changes were made to make the story easier to follow and less corny. The actors also did a great job at trying to make the script more serious and believable.
The end of the movie was a fresh breath of air and did not follow the same “fairy tale ending” that most sappy love stories do. This ending was realistic and left the audience with watering eyes because it is something that could really happen.
Although this movie is different than most love stories it is still a chick flick, and great for a girl’s night out.
