What the author wants to express is not the peculiarity of time and space travel and whether this matter is logical, but a bizarre and profound love presented to us by deconstructing time and space.
Compared to the time traveler, his wife's time and space are always linear and forward. Under normal circumstances, he can only jump within a limited space-time segment. The starting point of this time-space is his birth, and the end point is the moment he was accidentally killed by a shotgun. (Although at the end of the film, he can finally jump to the future after his death, but that is also short-lived and unsustainable)
Compared with the unrestricted assumptions of the films "jumper" and "Time Machine", this article is more real and living. Although the protagonist can travel between time and space from time to time, God gave him this extraordinary "ability" and also brought him unusual confusion and trouble: he had to suddenly appear naked in front of everyone; his wife Suddenly disappearing at a wedding; leaving his wife alone across the table at the start of a romantic candlelight dinner; and a simple wish to have a child elusive. However, perhaps it is this imperfect and incomplete life that shows people's rogue in the face of fate, and at the same time makes the audience feel that this story can actually find a shadow in reality.
The most touching thing in the film is of course the cherished love between the heroines. Always being absent from his wife's life made Henry feel ashamed of his wife, and he had to make up for his "mistakes" by jumping in time and space: Henry now keeps jumping to the past to fill the gaps in his wife's life, he even jumps He communicated with his wife during his childhood, and when the two were in trouble, the future Henry would come to the present to comfort his wife. It seems that Henry is the only person in the world who can take medicine for regret. He can always use his magical power to go back to the past to make up for his wife or to love her more. However, Henry does not have complete control over when he jumps, so mistakes always occur and fate cannot be changed.
Most people do it in hindsight, and we always make this assumption in our minds: It would have been better if we had done it at the time. However, we cannot jump back to the past like Henry, and even if Henry can do so, it can only change the past time and space, not the present.
Therefore, love can be strengthened, but it cannot be continued. Let us cherish the present.
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