To Travel In Time

So why did I came up with this idea of a series of letters from my future self?  Well, it is because I have long been fascinated by time travel and have always loved watching movies regarding time travel.  My personal favorites are:

13.   Jumanji
12.   The Terminator series
11.   Looper
10.   Shrek Forever After
9.     Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (yup, there is time travel which is important in the story arc.)
8.     Men In Black 3
7.     Click
6.     About Time
5.     The Time Traveler's Wife
4.     The Lake House (well, the letters are the ones that travels through time.)
3.     Il Mare (Original Korean version of The Lake House)
2.     The "Back to the Future" Series (Back to the Future 1, 2 and 3)
1.     Somewhere In Time

You would notice that majority of these movies are love stories.  Why is it that romance and time travel go well together?   I guess authors and screenwriters have long been "in love" with the notion of time travel.  And the themes in these films revolve around regrets in life's choices, a love so great that it transcends time itself or at times it is just about destiny.  I think that a lot of people (although they may not admit it) have some regrets in their life that they have wished they can change.  And wouldn't it be just so convenient if you can magically go back in time and just do it differently?  To say a word that was not said or to take back something said and change the events in the future?  As mentioned in Men in Black 3:

Agent K: Do you know the most destructive force in the universe?
Agent J: Sugar?
Agent K: Regret.

But one important aspect of time travel that one should always remember is called the grandfather paradox.  Changing an event in the past would recreate the future with all the good and bad things that happened in it and also prevents the events that would allow you to travel back in time in the first place.  So as much as travelling back in time may seem to be a good way to solve one's personal problems in the present it would also takes out your most cherished memories.

I have recently seen #6 in the list which is About Time, it is a story about a time traveler who manages to use his powers to find the girl he met on a "blind" date.  Well not your usual blind date since it was on a Dans le Noir or a blind restaurant.  Soon he knew that changing the events in the past would have dire consequences in the future.  The movie reminds me of The Time Traveler's Wife (probably due to the fact that it also stars Rachel McAdams) but on a lighter theme.  Plus it is written and directed by Richard Curtis (Four Wedding and A Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually.)   All of these movies are personal favorites too.  This guy is so bloody brilliant that he should get a knighthood already.  And just like all the other Richard Curtis movies, there would always be a catchy love song to accompany it.