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so I understand. He knows from the beginning people thought he was strange before when talking about the future. Then he goes back and never shuts up. Come on. Why doesn't he just shut his mouth and observe?
I had the same problem with the movie. I thought he was completely stupid and unsympathetic.
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You are absolutely right. He basically acts like an idiot through the whole movie. Yes, just shut up. I guess if he shuts up, you have a different movie. Too bad they didn't bother to restore the film. The color is all washed out. In the movie, he deserves to be burned at the stake.
shareHe was an idiot in that it didn't occur to him to take her with him. Actually I thought that was where the movie was going - she said how she would love to live in his time, he had no historical evidence of her ever existing. I figured that was because she disappeared the night he went back because she went back with him. Instead of an exciting ending, with him showing her all the great modern achievements, we get a downer - she dies of a broken heart
shareI too thought the movie was leading to Helen going with him to his time, the future. Instead we get to see her die not soon after of a broken heart. If she had died an old woman with a family and children she loved, it would've been an understandable ending. But I don't understand why he never thought of at least attempting to bring her with him.
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Other people have made similar comments. It didn't bother me, though. If he had just kept his mouth shut, it would have made for a boring movie.
One reason I liked the film is because I liked the two leads- Power and Blyth, and the four lead supporting actors- those who played Lady Anne, Kate, Tom and the obsnoxious Throssel. I liked the accents and the setting in England.
Someone else criticized the color. It was fine in the versio I watched.