Reaction to a Review

 So, now I am going to write about a review by Manohla Dargis based on  the The Time Traveler's Wife.  I have to say that I really disagree with the author's review on The Time Traveler's Wife. Dargis thinks that the movie is about a time-traveler who takes advantage of a normal girl. Dargis argues that "you could think of it as a crazy story about a stalker who sweet-talks a little girl whom he later seduces when she's a teenager only then to knock her up and emotionally,psychologically, and spiritually knock her down again and again, as he hopscotches naked across the time space continuum." (Dargis) Dargis makes it seem like Harry took advantage of Clare, but he really did not because it was fate. Henry could not change what happened, because it had already happened to Clare. Henry is justa guy who suffers from disorder that makes him time travel uncontrollaby and he had no way of controlling his feeling for Clare. The author mainly thinks that the best part of the movie was " watching Mr. Bana frequently strut his seminude stuff, nimbly avoiding the full-frontal reveal even as he flashes some discreet cheek, is one of the few pleasures afforded by this often ridiculous, awkward, unsatisfying and dour melodramatic adaptation", but she is not right. (Dargis) The author of this review mainly focuses on how Henry time travels and appears with no clothes on. She is not really paying attention to the big picture since she is only thinking about the akwardness of watching a naked guy in front of a six year old (young Clare).
        One thing I do agree on with Dargis is that the novel can make you feel really close to the character, because it is told from the first point of view of Clare and Henry. On the other hand "the camera hovers vaguely between her point of view and Henry’s ". (Dargis) I also realized while watching the movie that one does not feel as close to the characters when it is told from a vague pointof view. Overall I do not really share the same opinions with Dargis's review on the TheTime Traveler's Wife.

Work Cited

Dargis, Manohla. "Movie Review - The Time Traveler's Wife - So Sorry, I Lost My Clothes Years Ago - NYTimes.com." Movie Reviews, Showtimes and Trailers - Movies - New York Times - The New York Times. Web. 25 Feb. 2011. <http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/movies/14time.html>.