The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

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Corrected entry: In the zoo scene, where Henry meets Alba for the first time, he already knows her name, and addresses her as such. She never reveals her name to Henry. He had just time travelled back from a time when he and Clare were still undecided and searching for names.

nipplezipper

Correction: It is a self fulfilling prophecy. As soon as he says her name it becomes her name. He goes back and tells Claire that her name is Alba.

Corrected entry: Wedding night: He returns from his travels while Claire is lying in the middle of the bed, watching T.V. with the left lamp on and right lamp off. He gets into the left side of the bed beside her only to be found on the right side of her with the right lamp on and the left one off during the same conversation and scene.

Correction: The first shot, as Henry gets into bed, is actually seen in a mirror. Once you realise this everything becomes clear.

martinharper

Correction: Moles can occur anytime in a person's life, and we are meant to interpret that Clare got the mole as she got older. Not a mistake.

GalahadFairlight

Other mistake: Shortly after the start of the movie, when Eric Bana's character reappears in the library and starts to put his clothes back on, his pants are already undone. If he had suddenly vanished from the library, then his pants should not be undone (unless, of course, he was up to no good just as he vanished).

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Question: There's a scene in which, right after they've bought their house, Henry appears in their living room, naked and shot. I just don't see how this can happen because this would constitute a travel within a travel. That is, he travels to where he gets shot. Shot, he then travels to the newly-bought house; then finally travels back to the Christmas party from whence he came originally, where he finally dies. But the movie never establishes this sort of "Inception"-like travel. He always travels to one time, then comes back. Is this something that the book clarifies, or is it a mistake from the movie?

Answer: Since no rules are ever firmly established in the film, there's no reason he couldn't have done this. So it's not a movie mistake. The book addresses the nature of his travel a little more in-depth, and even there this would not have been impossible.

Phixius

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