I posted this tweet about a week ago:

Must not watch time travellers wife. A lot of reports of uncontrollable tears. Bad for my tough guy macho image.

But due to unforeseen circumstances, I was put in a situation where, to make the long story short, I ended up sitting in a movie theatre that was screening that very movie.

Being the tough macho guy that I am, I bravely decided to watch anyway.

The movie turned out pretty good (the girl in the movie was cute).

Except that I wasn’t sure which was the right place to cry. My friend didn’t shed a tear either, even though she is more feminine than me. (A lot more actually.)

Come to think of it, I think those who cried their noses out seemed to have read the book before, and thus filled in the blanks with sadder stuff.

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I might have been tempted to eke out half a tear if the final scene was a little different-

The part where the wife was running towards Mr Time Traveller? If he had vanished away completely just before they touched… boy… that would have been awesome.

And I wouldn’t mind catching the sequel - the Time Travelling Girl. Especially the appearing scenes.