The Time Traveller's Wife is good. Its premise is interesting and it was very well-written, resulting in a piece of work that was very well put together. It might all be very fictional, this guy who travel through time, but as my writing teacher would say, "Fuck you lah what not real. The emotions are real."
The casting of the two leads were awesome, Rachel McAdams (hey Mean Girls!) and Eric Bana. They are the kind of people who, in real life, aren't the glamorous look-at-me types and in this movie they are subtle but powerful in their acting.
It is a look at life as a whole, from childhood to being a young adult and then becoming matured and having a sense of worldliness. At the same time it brings across themes of love, devotion and compared to other films, a strong sense of family. Their daughter, the driving force for the entire last act, was angelic.
I wonder if anyone would give up their lives for a person who would disappear for periods of time without warning. To wait and stay devoted to somebody who might miss Christmas, or disappear just before a date and having to be alone. It's hard to make your world revolve around somebody who cannot be there all the time.
But Claire was so devoted. She never gave up. She managed to pull herself together through difficult times while being a pillar of strength for her husband.
Maybe all love takes is being strong enough to deal with whatever comes.
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