Oroborus

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The movie -- August 14th! It was the best book I ever read. Can't wait!!!!

http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-time-travelers-wife/28722/video/the-time-travelers-wife-trailer-no-1/27204060001

[Sharonywr]

I actually have been reading the book this summer. Don't find it particularly riveting, but can see how the movie would tear at the heart. Of course, summer, I pile up too many books at one time to really get emotionally involved with only one. It is at the bottom of the pile right now. Unfortunately.

Edited...Hell, I just saw the trailer and am crying like a baby right now. They would throw me right out of the theater for disruption...have to wait for DVD, much safer.
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"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
Clementine Paddleford

[Thomas James Haller]

It really looks like they picked some good actors for the parts.

The premise sounds interesting, the gravity of emotional moments drawing him to places. Reminds me of Slaughterhouse Five, where the main character is drawn to emotional memories in the past.

I’ve got this strange memory that I can’t place in anything I know, like past life memories, future events, etc. A psychic friend of mine stumbled onto it during a reading, and described it in the same details as I know, and he didn’t know what it was either. He thought it might be a family memory in my DNA.

There’s something about that movie trailer that triggered that memory again.

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[Thomas James Haller]

I don’t know anything about the movie or the book, but it would be strange if it was anything like this memory I have. The memory is a funeral that takes place in the country, and it’s a cold day with some snow on the ground (I believe). There's this stand of trees across this slopped field that draws my attention.

[Sharonywr]

You've inspired me to pick it back up. It does seem to get a bit more interesting as he grows older and their lives intertwine.

The beginning 200 pages are just extremely confusing and the "flow" (which is kind of impossible in this kind of plot) is interrupted too often. You find yourself almost having to make a chart out of it to make sense. That completely takes away from the moment for me when I read...kind of like a mental coitus interruptus...

The movie should make it all better.
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"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
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[Brock]

it's like what an adult child of an alcoholic feels.

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[starchild]

the movie looks awesome. I haven't read the book yet.

[jbk]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/thedailyshow?v=feed&story_fbid=238553340292

The Daily Show welcomes Rachel McAdams to discuss her latest film, "The Time Traveler's Wife."

Hmmm maybe I should check this out...book, movie, Daily Show and John Stewart ...cant go wrong with all that!

[Gehenna]

http://www.slate.com/id/2225223

[Thomas James Haller]

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Well I finally went to see the movie last night. It was very good; the actors are amazing and were exactly as I visualized them from the book. The soundtrack was pretty. They did a good job of keeping the storyline going, as any time-travel story is hard to keep straight. It wasn't as choppy as the book; it followed Henry's viewpoint whereas the book followed Clare's viewpoint. The special effects as they age the characters is very well done and subtle.

But ... I was disappointed with the ending. It wasn't the same as the book; they softened it too much. The book had an interplay of Clare's family with Henry and how it came full circle at the end in a cruel and unavoidable twist of fate, but the movie glossed over that.

In the book there are more visceral images of what happens to a time traveler when he suddenly is thrown into an unfamiliar time and place, stark naked and disoriented. The movie downplayed that aspect, I guess they were concentrating more on the romance angle, but I feel they could have done both.

But overall it's worth seeing! I'd give it 3 stars.

Now I need to go buy the book again, LOL.

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[Thomas James Haller]

[jbk]

I saw it too and laughed and cried and enjoyed it. I did not read the book. I did agree with your thoughts on the ending, they could have really evolved Clair's dad's role further. I felt Henry was cheated out of any justice there.

I also felt, even as the movie first started, that they chose the actor because he resembles the actor who starred in the Quantum Leap tv show years ago, so to tap into something familiar with the viewers.

Twilight zone moment for Thomas!

[Thomas James Haller]

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[Thomas James Haller]

Now that’s one scene I have a hard time watching, the way he sobs reminds me of my broken heart. You know he goes back to the red head’s place at the end of the movie, but I thought she didn’t look right for him. I like your ending much better.

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Yeah she didn't seem right for him, she looked too plastic and phony. And maybe I'm dense but I didn't get the whole idea of her welding the wings, and him never opening her package because it had wings on it?

[Thomas James Haller]

I did think Tom Hanks did a great job with his role, and I agree the whole wing thing seemed out of place, but I think they tried to tie it in with the raft’s outhouse sails from Bakersfield. After my spending years living on beaches I agree that, “You never know what the tide will bring in,” but I would have done something better than an outhouse. The sailing over the wave scene also didn’t play right because of the lack of instant momentum from outhouse sails, not to mention wave size changes day to day, and some days there’s no waves at all. I would have gone for a fabric sail that came off a wrecked sail boat that belonged to a man who disappeared at sea. And his widow, the woman who found “Wilson,” would have been scouring the beaches looking for signs of he husband’s lost sailboat. Then there could have been some image on the sails that tied the star crossed lovers together, like a sign that was alluded to earlier in the movie.

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[dnatree]

My experiences today with the Time Travelers Wife are at
http://stephentree.com/washoe/

My trip with Ginger was fantastic although I went alone this time. I needed to spend some time alone in order to deal with so much that has been happening inside me lately. I spent some time alone in the desert after buying a two dollar robe at a yard sale in Jackson on the way over the mountain on hwy 88 I went walking around the desert near my VW bus with my robe on in the dark having some very wonderful experiences. Some about my dad, some about Pam and some about my kids and even some about Y’all. The first pic I would like to show You is of Ginger up near Donner Pass over looking Donner Lake.



First,

Today has been very eventful as I took Pam to breakfast after her Tai Chi, I rode my bike about 30 miles for much needed exercise, and then came home to take Pam out again to some Tai Coconut milk soup and a movie. While having dinner we sat at table five and ordered appetizer number five. Pam said that five seems to be the number tonight. We then went and decided to watch The Time Travelers Wife. I of course had many synchs with this movie especially the one where he left (died) when his daughter was five and they had the big five thing in the movie. Now many of You know that it was when Raine was five that she went to live with her siblings in North Alabama and I came out here to California. It was like a death but it could not go on the way it was. Of course the Spirit had indicated that I would return into her life as the sign of the whale as I have indicated over the years to those that keep up with such here.

OK, now let me take You to the moments alone walking in the desert with my new two dollar robe on. Here is a pic of the campsite I was at in Washoe Lake State Park.


Washoe State Park campground site number 32.



Pay particular attention to the type of trees You see in this picture as at night they took an a very special significance especially related to my father. I walked around the campground in the dark and only a distant occasional headlamp from a car would bring light to the darkness of the desert. Some of You will remember the synch I had before my father died that I told him about the breeze. One particular tree when I walked around the campground would light up by a distant headlight and the breeze would blow through the leaves as I passed by. The experience I was having that night was “I am the breeze through Your leaves”. The experience alone thinking of Dad made me realize that we become part of YOU/Spirit at death and having my father dye made death a more welcoming place. I suppose this is natural for folks in the Spirit as they get older and LOOSE LOVED ONES. I just want to place this quote here.



"To be absent from the body is to be present with Christ."



Now as I have learned from YOU that to open to Spirit is to open to all who have passed, as we are all one. And that all those things that are incorruptible about our experience are there with them and accessible.


Here is a pic of the mountains behind Washoe Lake.

This is a quote about this park. “The evening breeze down the canyon brings the smell of sage.”

Here is the Washoe lake State park web site. http://parks.nv.gov/wl.htm




When I went to breakfast at the nugget in Carson City Nevada the next morning I sat next to an Indian looking fellow. He said he was from the Washoe tribe. Washoe by the way just means “the people”. The area was also called Washoe and a town there is now called Washoe. By the way they have a Town called Washoe there with a Chocolate Nugget factory and I am eating chocolate and drinking Cabernet Wine. This might have been a better selection than break and wine for Jesus except for the fact that Chocolate probably did not exist.



Two more thing that I feel is significant was the very fresh place I found today while biking that I later wished to share with Pam. I PASSED OVER a bridge to a campus with cobblestones and then into a very wonderful neighborhood with lovely shade trees for biking. Just the kind of place Pam and I had dreamed of a home at one time. Also the synch with Lewis Spence and this quote respective to the time traveler.







Quote from my ebook posted a early a 1997

Lewis Spence,, writer,, and I (dream) riding on a Victorian monorail train that mysteriously appeared in a shopping center parking lot Left brain overload,, right brain experience Image and feeling to create rapture,,(quick ascension to glory) No doubts, no fears, just like when your here look god(heart) no hands FEEL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!



Oh, and another quote from my ebook

It's Love across time,,, get ready for the ride!!!

And from the front page of my website

Wild Hearts can’t be Broken
Wild hearts cannot be broken
Was love the pain that started all this
Was it the cause that drew the first kiss
Or was it the reason I wanted you so
my blood runs hot but you already know
This is my passion play!
Wild hearts cannot be broken
The preacher and lawyer have taken my bride and by their view she is made to abide.
Is this the reason that I died???
It’s love across time get ready for the RIDE!
This is my passion play!!!

Stephentree

The good thing about dying such as a broken heart
You cannot have Your heart broken again as You have already passed through and seen the truth on the other side. The sting along with the fear of death is removed.

One last synch at the movies we went too. As we went to leave I was attracted to Jim Carrey's Scrooge tale and across from it is 2012 as I was thinking of the Ghost of Christmas in the future,, the word Disaster came over the speaker in the movie theater. Not to scare Yall, but these synchs WILL REACH THE WORLD.




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Don't believe me or anyone, rather ask the Spirit what the true intentions of Your heart are and believe every word that You get from the Spirit. Father, let me learn only to speak as YOU speak through me.

[dnatree]

Driving home I heard this song and these words reflected my experience by the lake that "YOU/and my father" were there with me.
from post Closer to YOU

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