This seems like a good movie, though I have to admit it may not be to the liking of many guys since this is technically a romance movie ( I think). I can’t imagine what it would be like to travel back and forth through time, especially if it was random like it is with the husband in this movie. Oddly enough though, he isn’t exactly the main character since the movie is entitled time travelers wife, and hence the review is really about her.

Some cynics may say most women wouldn’t be this loyal after having a husband that basically ditches her 24/7 and at random intervals, and maybe they are right. It is hard for anyone to stay loyal to a spouse that is gone for days, weeks, or even months, without ever knowing when they will come back. Still, these people do in fact endure and wait for their beloved it come home, which I guess is what this movie is about.

I remember reading on a Dick Masterson blog entry once about how he went on and on about how men are better than women (that’s what Dick Masterson is all about) and this one guy said something that I thought was pretty harsh which was that he felt that any cheating wife of a deployed soldier should be tried and executed for being traitorous, or something. Never mind that he never mentions giving out the same punishment out to the guy who she is cheating with.

And that brings me to the next point of this time travelers wife review, the double standard. It seems after all this time, after all the changes this world and humanity has gone through, that old ideas and so called principles still Die Hard, or Live Free. In the case of the double standard for women, well it probably still exists though luckily we won’t actually pass laws or worse, execute laws based on this double standard, well intentionally at least. Today if you’re caught cheating on your spouse well, there’s no actual illegality to it that I know of (at least in New York State) but you sure as hell will have one really pissed off spouse. They also make it so that if you kill your spouse that you just caught cheating, supposedly you get off easier because it’s considered a crime of passion is the technical term, of course I never understood that but people have many ways to justify death I suppose.

Now I don’t want to spoil the plot of time travelers wife in this review and of course I haven’t seen it yet but one thing is for certain, it is about the emotional struggles that a man and woman has to go through to maintain or destroy this so called double standard we all have in this society, the toll it has on people, and how a couple’s love can endure even the most severe of traumas (yes yes I know it’s corny but hey so is Star Trek with their time travel save humanity plots and that was pretty awesome)!