one star*
I haven’t read the book, but I hear it’s very good. I’ve seen the movie; it isn’t.
Audrey Niffenegger’s work of fiction is a book I’ve been meaning to read. It’s on the shelf with many others. It’s turn hasn’t come yet. Having seen the movie, I doubt that the book will make it to the top of the pile.
There’s no attachment by the audience to the characters. Quite simply, we don’t care enough about them to worry about what might or will happen.
The story is confusing and never explained sufficiently. However, in the book, I’m told it is all explained. I’m also told that while it’s common knowledge that a movie director can only cover some of the book (they’ve only got two hours screen time against ten hours to read the book) the parts left out from this book were the better parts.
The screenplay doesn’t give us enough to explain why the time traveller appears to come back in sequence (mostly) but appears at different ages when he does come back. When we’ve given up caring we realize that he could come back after he’s died, just at a younger age, but they hardly go there because it’ll spoil the plot and fill in the holes.
The only redeeming features were the nice shots of the pasture in summer and winter. If that’s the best it gets you know you’re in the right theatre at the wrong time.
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