After watching The Time Traveler’s Wife, you know what love is worth waiting a lifetime for.

This can’t be true.

Such an incredible life experience and such incredible love cannot possibly appear in our lives.

It can only exist in fiction, in the novels of American female writer Audrey Niffenegger, and in “The Time Traveler’s Wife”.

The novel does not provide readers with a reason to love, it only provides a reason to wait: waiting because of love.

Love doesn’t need a reason, maybe it really doesn’t. “I have no choice. He’s coming. I’m here.”

The novel uses ingenious conception, extraordinary charm, and concise, vivid and elastic language to tell us that the most romantic love is when a person grows old slowly while waiting for another person.

The background of Love is a modern American city, with cars, computers, lottery tickets and stocks, beautiful houses and gardens, and all the necessary props for modern life.

Like all love, there is physical pleasure, emotional attachment and spiritual loss.

The difference is that the mental loss is so huge that it is completely beyond the ability of ordinary people to bear the weight.

But this is not a tragedy, but an ode to love that transcends time and space.

A man and a woman are indispensable characters in normal love, and “The Time Traveler’s Wife” is no exception.

We will instinctively focus on them, Henry and Claire.

The perspective of the novel alternates back and forth between Henry and Claire, looking more like the inner monologue of the two people.

For Henry, the biggest trouble in this love is: “I don’t want to stay in a time and space without her. But I keep leaving, but she can’t follow me.”

This is exactly what Claire is worried about: “Why can’t I always accompany him when he leaves?”

The origin of the trouble is that Henry suffers from a “time disorder”, which makes him a person who can travel in time. He sometimes appears at a certain moment in the past and even meets his childhood self; sometimes he appears in the future. At a certain moment, even with my adult self.

He couldn’t control himself.

Overexertion, loud noises, stress, sudden standing, etc., any one of these things may lead to his disappearance.

In bed, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the car, in the library where he works, at his and Claire’s wedding, he will suddenly disappear for a few minutes, ten minutes, days, months, up to It will take two years to come back.

His disappearance and reappearance, swinging back and forth in Claire’s life like a swing, brought her endless troubles.

Claire struggled and waited in this endless trouble.

Only love is always as bright as a blooming rose and never changes color.

When Henry and Claire first met in life, Henry was twenty-eight and Claire was twenty.

They love at first sight.

For Claire, Henry carefully cleans up his life and breaks off with his lover Ingrid. Three years later, they got married.

But for Claire, that was not the first time she met Henry. She had met him when she was six years old, and she had met the thirty-six-year-old Henry, and since then, she had met him many times…

When she was six years old, Claire heard Henry say to her: “I come from the future. I am a time traveler. We are friends in the future.”

When she was eleven years old, Claire played an Ouija board game with her classmates and concluded that her future husband was named “Henry.”

When she was thirteen years old, Claire’s longing for Henry reached a fever pitch: “I desperately need him here, need him to touch my body with his hands. Although at this moment, he is just the rain on my body. And I am alone, longing for Hold him.”

When she was seventeen, Claire said to Henry: “I will never leave you, even if you always leave me.” She missed Henry “every day, every minute.”

At the age of eighteen, Claire couldn’t wait to devote herself to the future Henry.

When she was twenty years old, Claire told her friends with joy: “I love him, he is my life. I have been waiting for him, waiting for him all my life, and now, I have finally waited…”

Henry and Claire are not morally perfect.

During the time travel, Henry always appeared naked, he needed clothes and food, for which he learned to steal and sometimes rob. Claire once used Henry’s help to humiliate a boy who bullied him.

And after marriage, in order to have a pleasant house and an independent studio, she tolerated Henry’s manipulations in lottery tickets and stocks.

This is the author’s cleverness.

She makes Henry and Claire seem more like ordinary people in real life, rather than otherworldly gods and ghosts.

In addition, there are family love and friendship, as well as jealousy, worry and embarrassment, all of which are perfectly interspersed in the text, setting off the current life atmosphere like underwear, almost impeccable.

After getting married, Henry and Claire’s lives are still plagued by time travel.

Desperate to return to a normal life, Henry sought help from doctors, but to no avail. Claire’s patience reached its limit: “I really want to go over and kiss him, and then kill him, or the other way around.”

This sounds more like angry words.

However, shortly thereafter, the real separation finally came irreversibly.

On New Year’s Day, 2007, after the New Year’s bell rang, Henry was shot by a rifle bullet from 1984 while traveling through time. he died.

His age stopped forever at forty-three.

Claire’s waiting continues. She wished Henry could come and see her, at or before forty-three.

She finally waited for that day.

One morning in the summer of 2053, eighty-two-year-old Claire finally waited for forty-three-year-old Henry.

Her face was full of joy and she walked towards him slowly. He held her in his arms. At this moment, Claire will definitely think of the letter Henry left for her before his death, and the last words of that letter: “I love you forever and ever. Time is nothing.”

The novel was later made into a movie, also called “The Time Traveler’s Wife.”

The ending also ends with Henry being shot by a bullet and dying after the New Year’s bell rings. Claire has been waiting for him too.

Fortunately, the film director did not let Clay wait as long as eighty-two, but in middle age, on the lawn where they first met.

This is probably the only comforting thing about the movie.

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