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Time travel is all in ones mind.
Time travel is all in ones mind. The paradox is that Richard could return back in time, find his love, gain happiness, and inevitably return back too 1979, and die of a broken heart.

The Book, "Travels through Time" was a key. 9 years previously Richard was a student of the professor.

While at college Richard studied with a physics professor, who wrote a book, "Journey in Time", on time travel. Richard asked the professor, "Is time travel possible"? The professor believed he had accomplished time travel, only a few seconds because of objects from the present brought him back to the present. The professor instructed Richard; too remove all the objects associated with the present. Richard decides to buy a suite probably 15 years older than the target year 1912 and attempts to move his mind back in time. In one of the last scenes, Elise jests about how Richard's suit is 15 years out of style and Elise wants to buy Richard a new suit. It is during this scene that Richard discovers the 1979 penny disrupting the channel back in time and returns back to the present.

The professor told Richard, he believed time travel was possible and by emerging ones mind totally on the past and remove all reminders of the current, time travel to the past could occur. Richard removes pictures, coins, and puts the recorder under his bed. Richard discovers a registry for room 416 with his signature on it in 1912 that gives Richard confidence, he did return too the past. Richard finally is completely emerged in the past and allowed to move back through the time/space absolute into the past.

Elise read "Travels through Time" over and over. Elise in 1979, contacted Richard and placed a watch in his hand and said "come back to me".

Richard wakes up June 27, 1912 on a bed (416), at the Grand Hotel. Richard seems determined not to change the events leading to the future. It seems impossible for events too be changed in any disruptive manner. Richard knowing the future would make sure events such as his signature at the grand hotel occurred for the correct room and time. Richard's cohesion in preserving time event as understood in 1979 remained a necessity as he move through time/space into the future as it would happen in 1979. Just as Richard must accept the facts that he will go back in time, so must he accept the time events that form the future.

If any evidence surfaced that pointed to the current, such as, a 1979 penny the time/space absolute time travel connection would be destroyed. The watch would disappear, the night Richard returned too the future, and the night Elise died. Did Richard fantasized his trip in time and so intensely emerge himself into the past that his realty became the past like a deep dream. The mind's attempt to maintain symmetry would return him to the present and leave him devoid of his love.

In 1910, Arthur was five and came with his father, who worked in the Grand Hotel. Arther would ask Richard in 1979, "Have we met before". Richard in the past was kind to Arther.

In 1912, Elise had a photograph while smiling at Richard that hung on the wall of the Hotel archive room. The photograph became a portal between the current and the past. Richard fell in love with the photograph; the photograph seemed too span generations of time, a sink a love deep inside his heart with a message "I want to be everything for you. I want to make you happy". Richard was tormented by his infatuation and intrigue with the actress, "One of the most revered actress on the stage", "creator of mystique on the stage", and "pinnacle of seclusion and privacy". Elise was "bright","cheerful", and after 1912 became quite. Richard studied public library documentation on the Actress Elise McKeena.

Every woman dreams that a prince will walk into her life. A companion she can express her deep emotional expressions of affection, passion, and longing; a companion who will make her happy and she him. "Is it you" touches the essence of her realm and decisions and his reply of "yes" is the appropriately direct and assertive. Did two people travel back in time: Both Richard and Robinson? Robinson, told Elise she would met a man, who someday that would change her life. Robinson used the illusion too keep Elise his captive bird and it is probably just a coincidence that Richard did travel back to met the perfect woman and free her.

Richard single mindedness hope to establish relationship is rudely intercepted by Robinson. Robinson tells Richard, "leave Ms. Mckeena alone or I will see that your put out." What does "Is it you mean"? Richard is a complete stranger, a play writer from Chicago, and a man Elise has never before seen. Richard is the symbol of the perfect man for Elise. Does Elise have time for love? Can Elise maintain control of her career and love Richard?

There was something strange about William Robinson (Plumber is brilliant - Shogan Jesuit priest adversary against Blackthorne) relationship with Elise. Some of the music was reused in "Dances with Wolves". Robinson is the "Phantom of the Menace" and claims too be the Actress "Guardian" responsible for turning Elise into a star. Robinson worships Elise, finding her young, and culturing her into a star. Robinson secretly loves Elise but can not declare his love for her. The best Robinson can do is declares his possession of her. When Richard asks Robinson, if he wants Elise for a wife, Robinson is insatiable about his appraise of Elise. Elise loves Richard and defends her love for Richard. Elise is cruel to Robinson telling him, "I love Richard" and rebukes sharply telling him not to interfere with their love. Robinson rejection forces him, too bind in cord, Richard and leave him gagged in a horse stable.

Many of Reeves idoms seem quirky and boyishly ackward in comparison to British sophistry. "If you do not walk with me, I shall go insane, simply mad." "Surely, I would walk with you and resolve all about me", "just say yes", and "she's crazy about me". The scenry and music are classics. The movie only intrigues more and more people to watch over time.



a love story with no boundaries
its a love story worth wishing for, i don't even know if it came from a book then made into a movie but i love everything about the movie the cast especially the story

Touching Time-Travel Tale
Being one who always seems to enjoy time-travel stories, it's no wonder I like this movie so much, but it isn't the interesting "time" angle that draws me in: it's also the fact that this is one of the most touching love stories I've ever seen. I'm not usually a big fan of romance stories, but this one has always moved me, maybe because, as another reviewer points out, it's from the man's point of view.

The film is a wonderful old-fashioned type of story with a really nice feel for the period (1912) and is simply a pleasant, leisurely-paced story I found comfortable. Would kids of today like this? No. Too slow for them. Too bad, because I found the movie moved pretty well. The 100 minutes went by quickly.

Christopher Reeve is the star of the film but personally I found Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer far more entertaining. The theme song, "Somewhere In Time," is one of the prettiest songs ever and that adds to the sad and frustrating romance angle of the story. The language also is quite tame. Yes, it's a bit "sappy" at times, but for sentimental people, this is a nice film to keep.

My only real complaint is I've never seen a sharp transfer put on a DVD yet. There have been two DVDs out and both have that grainy look to them. That's disappointing because this would really look nice with a clear picture. The film deserves better treatment.

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