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Apr 1 11 11:34 PM
Apr 2 11 3:32 PM
Bill Warren wrote:Something of a blend of GROUNDHOG DAY and DEJA VU, this is an intelligent science fiction movie that, one character claims, is not about time travel. Oh, yes it is. A man (Jake Gyllenhall) suddenly finds himself in another man's body eight minutes before that man and everyone on the train he's riding are killed in an explosion. He learns that his mind is being sent back to the same point, over and over, so he can learn who planted the bomb--because the bomber is apparently setting off another bomb in downtown Chicago--the same day. As he revisits the same time line again and again, the protagonist becomes interested in a fellow passenger who already knows "him" (i.e. the guy whose body he inhabits for those 8 minutes), and becomes determined to try to save her, despite being told by his handlers (whom he sees only on a TV monitor) that this isn't possible. Doug Jones directed; the movie is quite good, mostly engrossing (with a few slow spots); it's successful enough that I think it's a shame he was taken off the new Superman project.
Apr 2 11 4:26 PM
Yes, somewhat, but he does know what he's in the past to achieve--and he keeps going back to the same past. The voice of Gyllenhaal's unseen father may sound familiar.
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Apr 27 11 9:01 PM
Colossus Rex wrote: On examination, I don't think the sci-fi premise holds up at all. What Gyllenhaal is able to do on the train... and not just at the end... is counter to everything we've been told via the technobabble exposition the scientist character provides.
Apr 28 11 12:01 AM
Apr 28 11 1:09 PM
Bill Warren wrote: Colossus Rex wrote: On examination, I don't think the sci-fi premise holds up at all. What Gyllenhaal is able to do on the train... and not just at the end... is counter to everything we've been told via the technobabble exposition the scientist character provides. I'm a little confused here. In time travel stories, everyone is on their own; there are no "laws" regarding time travel. This is another time travel story, and made up its own rule. It even made up a rule that it then quite deliberately (and carefully) violated.
Apr 28 11 2:01 PM
SteveZodiak wrote: The confusion is that he was actually traveling in time, but merely reliving a time sequence, the outcome of which could not be changed in the real world. My confusion is that it at first appears that he alters the outcome in what I figure became an alternate reality. A split time line, but then the story goes further and that proves not to be what happened at all. Now I am confused because if this is real time now, then who is occupying the body that didn't die? Wouldn't it be the original owner? I worked out my own possiblity, but it requires way too much speculation. The ending is just not clear to me. I must have missed something.
Apr 28 11 2:16 PM
Bill Warren wrote: The rule that's established, "this isn't time travel," existed TO BE broken, it seems to me--that is, it wasn't a rule at all. .
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