The Time Traveller's Wife
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The time traveller’s wife is a beautiful sci-fi, creatively conceived by its original writer, Audrey Niffenegger.
Audrey Niffenegger is special. Not many writers hit the jackpot on the very first novel that they wrote. In fact, if not for being an academia, Audrey would be regarded on the same level as JK Rawling of the Harry Potter fame. Both of them are celebrated as rags to riches writer. The Time Traveller’s Wife was Audrey’s debut novel when it was first published in 2003. In real life, Audrey is a Professor in Columbia College, Chicago and Columbia College IS the largest Arts and Media College in US.
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The novel was then turned into a film by director Robert Schwentke, a German who happens to graduate from the same Columbia College.
What make this book/film special is the storyline. The central theme is time travel – but rather than glorifying the science, the book and this film shows the emotion part of the traveller. This traveller, Eric Bana’s character does not want to time travel. He does not choose to. In this book/ film, the ability to time travel is a result of a disease. So whilst other sick men felt sorrow because of cancer and what not, Eric Bana with this disease felt sorrow because he cannot control when he will time travel.
But he did not lost in time though. That’s the beautiful part of the storyline. Every time Eric Bana’s time travels, he goes and sees the same girl/ woman. So that makes up the love story. Eric Bana goes and sees Rachel Mc Adams (the wife character) several times in different age period. So they met once when Rachel was very young, then meet again when Rachel is 18 and so forth. It is illogical but as I have said, the selling point in the book/ film is not the sci-fi, but rather the love between the two.
Eric Bana played in Black Hawk Down (2001), Hulk (2003), Finding Nemo (2003), Troy (2004) and many more. Rachel Mc Adams on the hand played Mean Girls (2004), The Notebook (also 2004) and many more.