![]() Everything depends on everything else nothing can be said to have happened first and so caused all else. Richard Collier finds McKenna because she finds him she finds him because he found her. The watch has no creation it has always been. It would appear that we have an uncaused cause in this film, a story in which everything happens because it happens. He went back in time with the sole purpose of meeting someone, and he met her having met her, he returned to his own time-but he has not changed history in a way that would make it so that he would not have wanted to travel back in time to meet her.īut when he goes back in time, he takes with him several objects, and one of these he does not bring back. He eventually comes forward in time, and we find that whatever he changed has resolved into that which was known to have happened anyway. Obviously, Richard Collier goes back in time, and this causes a change in history. But that is not the only way to solve the anomaly. Richard Collier and Elise McKenna were fated to be together they were together because they were together, and time itself bent to bring them together. There will be those who say that this story only works in a fixed time concept. We see him in an out-of-body experience head for the light, where she, the younger she, is awaiting him. Richard Collier tries to get back to her, but dies in the hotel. ![]() We have already learned that something happened to her at this hotel, and she never acted again. Suddenly he pulls from his pocket a penny, a coin from the future, and his stay in the past is instantly terminated. She has his watch as he is showing what he likes about his suit. They declare their love for each other, spend the night together, and start making plans for the future. Thus when Richard Collier manages to get back to the hotel, she is searching for him. He has eliminated one more suitor.īut Miss McKenna won't go with them. After several attempts to discourage Richard Collier he has him beaten, bound, and dumped in the stables just hours before the acting company is to depart. His desire is to see Miss McKenna become the most revered actress of her age. Robinson, played by Christopher Plummer, objects. But gradually he manages to win her heart. Here he begins the rather difficult project of attempting to meet Miss McKenna, completely out of touch with the social realities of the day. He purchases antique coins and an old suit, clears his hotel room of everything, and using a tape recorder under his bed and extreme exertion, he wills himself back to June 27th, 1912. The danger is that any object whose origin had to be from the future would disrupt this and return you to your own time. The film suggests a type of time travel which would be entirely by force of will, that is, the traveler would will himself into the past by convincing himself that this is where he was. He learns that she died the night she gave him that watch and that she was interested in time travel, and owned a book about it by one of his professors.Ī visit to the professor reveals an incredible story of a trip to the past-momentary, uncertain, but an experience that may have been time travel. His investigations lead him to discover that the beautiful young actress on the wall, a Miss Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour), is the same woman who gave him the watch. During the night, he discovers the picture of a woman who immediately entrances him with her beauty, and so he stays to find out who she is. He winds up at a very nice hotel just up the road from his alma mater, and plans to stay the night. A decade passes, and we find Richard Collier now successful, working on a play and suffering from writer's block, deciding to take a break. ![]() At this celebration, an elderly woman comes forward, gives him a watch, and says, "Come back to me." Then she leaves. ![]() The play he produced in college may be going to broadway. We enter the story in 1972, as Richard Collier, played by Christopher Reeve, gets his big break. ![]()
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