Sunday, August 1, 2010

THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE: TIME'S UP!

Well, I was able to sit through the whole movie unlike my friend Suzy. Upon first look, it's a romantic idea but when further thought about it's pretty creepy. Aren't normal relationships difficult enough? He meets her when she is a child as a forty something year old man. Isn't that enough to kill the mood? If you can shake the pedophile vibe, then there's the 'one person relationship' theme. It's hard enough to compete with a job or a hobby but with time travel? What woman in her right mind would continue in that sort of a relationship? The ones I hear about were held 'captive' during this type of thing. It may have been romantically staged, and they certainly looked pretty, but it was so cheesy and dramatic and staged that it just didn't work for me. I did like the version of Love Will Tear Us Apart, but other than that it was just 107 minutes of film.