or only one way that was always meant to be?
don’t need a time machine
August 22, 2009“I go to sleep alone and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I’m tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that’s been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?” - Audrey Niffeneger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)
It is not easy to get me affected by movies. I am more affected by books, books have deeper impact, movies are a little light. But The Time Traveler’s Wife is a book, and it is also a movie, so how am I affected by instances as such? When I read the book more than two years ago, I was so touched. The strength of the plot affected me for days after turning the last page. It held be longing.
A while ago, I watched the movie, I forgot little details from the book so I enjoyed the movie. I believe that how the movie was created from the book, the movie itself, would also affect me for days afterwards. And maybe because I have been inloved with Eric Bana for quite sometime pre-Time Traveler’s Wife.
So anyway, what’s the point of this entry? The point of this entry is that I’ve devised a new philosophy for myself so that I would enjoy movies-from-books more. Books are books. They are written, you read each word, you get affected. Films are films. They are filmed, you watch each scene, you get affected. They are two different art forms that tend to portray the same story, but just the same, they are different. A movie (from a book) would be better enjoyed if you watch it from a movie point-of-view, not from the book.
Hence, from now on, I would stop comparing movies from books. Just to point, why would I watch a movie whose exact plotline I know already since I read the book? There should be something different to keep it more interesting and to appeal to my untouched mind.
And since I’ve always been told that transitions are not my best of skills, I would then begin speaking of some other things, like back to the story of the movie/book. It was really just intense. I did shed a tear. It made me believe that my own Henry would come someday. He does not time travel, but he is in my future, both by destiny and choice.
