Just for the heck of it.

I'm gonna give you my review of the Time Traveler's Wife.

First of all, if you know nothing at all about it. It's a romance. And I'm not all that into romances. That doesn't mean I'm going to be all biased or whatever. But this'll be my report, take it with a grain of salt. And I haven't read the book.

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Alright, I'm back. I don't know where to start. The whole time travel thing makes perfect sense to me after watching that movie. Perfect golden sense. But my sister who saw it with me didn't feel the same way. And since that's somewhat important to understanding the movie I'll try and quickly explain it as I see it. There may be other ways of explaining it but I think this fits everything.

1) All events (past, present and future) are set, meaning that they can't be changed by someone moving through the gears of time.
2) Every person has a normal birthday, death-day and years in between. Eg. I'm eighteen now, the age that I am naturally right now. (Normal) This rule includes time travelers.
3) Time traveling basically means to leave your "Normal time", what we think of as the present, to another time.
4) You can time travel more than once at the same time. This would happen like this: If I were a time traveler my eighteen-year-old self could time travel to 2 years ago, but also at the same time my 48-year-old self could travel to the time when I would normally be eighteen.
5) Rule #4 can sometimes mean that there would be two ages of the same person alive at the same time. This might be hard to understand. Here's the scenario: So the 18-year-old me goes to the normative 16-year-old time, and if the 16-year-old version wasn't timetraveling when I got there, there would be two of me. Understand? You can look at like this. The normal time is the home time. Timetravelling means leaving the home time to visit another time. You go as a visitor, a guest and the host-age version of you could either be there or not depending on whether or not they are time traveling sometime else.
So if the host of the home time is there to greet you when you leave your present home time as a visitor by time traveling to them, there would be two people as yourself during that time who are different ages. This can play out into a lot of different situations.

That's the best I can do. I hope that makes a bit of sense.

Now, what to say about the movie? Um, okay. So the movies, called the Time Traveler's Wife. I found that having that the movie followed Henry (the time traveling husband) wherever he went, that the focus on him was over done. I think the balance to it all was off.

There was one time in the movie when he was gone for two weeks after they married. And I'm not sure that I can say that I recall seeing anything about the wife during the time. Just her being upset when he got back. I think that they might have just glossed over her by showing her cleaning or working for like two seconds. In that time there was so much potential to dive into her character. They could have shown her having a conversation with a friend expressing how she felt, rather than just leaving it to the audience to guess. It's not like we can have a conversation with her ourselves.

You do see quite a bit of the marriage though, the good times and the bad times. Different important events. [SPOILER, not really but kind of] The birth of his daughter and his death.

[OK, SPOILER'S PAST] In the end, I thought to myself "Okay, pretty good movie. Interesting scenarios and what not. I guess that's as good as it gets for a movie, what more do you want?" (Yes, I do talk to myself) But in that thought there's the idea that movies can only take you so far into a story is there. I really think that movies have such potential to be great with an equally good idea. So I'd label this movie average. I think it lacked character depth beyond the events that were shown on the screen. I buy movies that I think are trully great, and that's a rare thing.

So would I watch it again? If somebody else bought it on dvd when it comes out or paid for me to go to the theatres with them, I would see it again. I wouldn't, however spend my personal money to watch it again. I might be interested in reading the book, but I find it hard to take time to read fictional stuff, and again - the money. I won't spend my own on it.

Sexuality/modesty? Well, it's rated PG-13 and it's about a marriage. They have sex undoubtedly. Later on they have a daughter... so, y'know, it happens. In one of the first scenes they have sex before even marrying. The guy hardly knows her though she's known him for like her whole life. But that justifies nothing. As for what you see on screen, both naked butts but no breasts or frontal reproductive parts. So yeah... I wouldn't let 13-year-olds see it. My brother's 12, I wouldn't let him see it a year from now, definitely not because of this content.

There's some cursing and violence, though sadly that's somewhat expected.

I did like the movie though. Pretty good. Maybe a 3.5/5 for how much I liked it. After seeing it though, I just wanted to come home, grad my Bible and read some real romance about Jesus Christ and His bride.

Unrelated after thought: Is Winner's only a Canadian store, or is it in the States too? I got a great Billabong sweater that I'd never be able to afford in an actual Billabong store or West 49 or wherever Billabong stuff is sold. Winner's is a liquidation store, what would I do without it?

"I should go for more walks"

Ahh too funny. I haven't been to my home church all summer but today I went today. The guy that I've mentioned a couple times saying that I like (two years older, strong Christian leader - pastor in training, body builder) - I still like him, he gave the sermon today.

It was one of my mom's friends, a woman in her 70s who never married, very nice ladie, she drove me home. She was talking about how he was so great. He spoke really well. And we were talking about him for a few minutes or so. She asked me where he lived and I told her that he lived on a nearby street. She told me I should go for more walks. That I should stop letting my mom walk the dog all the time.

Too funny. Clearly she meant I should get to know him more because he's a good guy, which is exactly what I want but she doesn't know that I like him. I'm asking God to arrange things so that I can marry him. But more than asking for a husband when I'm eighteen or even a boyfriend, what I'd like most to have with this man right now is a good solid conversation about church. I'd like to know what his plans are and what he hopes for when he goes to plant church. But he's a solid guy and I'd like to get to know him better.

On a different note, I have an interview tomorrow. I applied for an intership with MBC/Fair Havens. All the references and things got worked out. I wrote a bit about this in my last note. But yeah, if anyone reads this before tomorrow, if you could be praying that the interview goes well tomorrow. But more importantly that no matter whether the interview goes well or not or whether I get in, that my trust remains in Jesus for my purpose and for this coming year, for a future spouse, and whatever else might come my way.

That is what is on my mind. That's all folks! You can go home now. Seriously. OK.....

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So I thought I'd just leave a quick update date for y'all.

I got back from the cnc canoe trip on Monday. Four days long, lots of fun. Now I'm hanging around home, trying to go through the application process for an 8 month internship with two Christian camp type places. Getting accepted would also mean going to Costa Rica in January for month. So I'm hoping and praying. But I still need to finished apply and getting my references in order.

That's pretty much it. Pretty much the first time a quick update has been "quick".

But just a thought... Am I the only who things having a vlog would be super cool? I got a video camera for my birthday, so I suppose it could happen. It would require creativity. Sounds fun. Check out Strawburry17 on youtube. Just found her today on there; she seems pretty neat.