Every trip through the gate is precisely the same to him.

And we could hear her actually get out of the car and start walking through the woods.

Often these films make giant leaps when it comes to factual accuracy - think of the mail box in The Lake House which transports letters through time.

So traveling back in time is nothing more or less than the fourth-dimensional version of walking in a circle.

So, the question is not if you'll go through dark times in life, but when you'll go through them.