Post by Chicago Jake on Oct 1, 2011 23:09:10 GMT -6
From Netflix, Duncan Jones' "Source Code" (starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, and Jeffrey Wright).
I can't believe this hasn't already been reviewed on this site! Haven't any of youse guys seen it? If you have, I'd love to hear what you thought of it.
I've been dying to see it since I saw the commercials for it on TV, since they prominently featured the college campus where I work for a living. Unfortunately, the footage from my campus was pretty much limited to the brief images in the commercials! Oh well. It was still an intense and enjoyable movie.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays an Afghanistan war veteran who suddenly finds himself projected back in time to the site of a horrendous terror attack on a commuter train in Chicago. His job is to figure out what happened, so that the authorities can prevent further attacks from occurring. The technology that allows him to relive events that are not only in the past, but in other peoples' past, is called the "source code." That is the science fiction element. If you don't buy that, you won't buy the movie.
Anyway, given that he can re-live other peoples' pasts, he must find out what happened, and try to find the perpetrators so that they can be stopped from causing further damage. BUT.... unbeknownst to the technicians running things, they are not just creating a simulation of past events. Nosiree Bob; they are creating alternate universes! It is up to Jake G to figure out how to get the most bang for the buck out of the situation, salvage his estranged relationship with his dad, stop the terrorists, and of course get the girl in the end.
All in all, it is a highly complex story with many possible interpretations. Sort of "Inception" crossed with "Groundhog Day." I liked it. What did you think?........Jake
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I can't believe this hasn't already been reviewed on this site! Haven't any of youse guys seen it? If you have, I'd love to hear what you thought of it.
I've been dying to see it since I saw the commercials for it on TV, since they prominently featured the college campus where I work for a living. Unfortunately, the footage from my campus was pretty much limited to the brief images in the commercials! Oh well. It was still an intense and enjoyable movie.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays an Afghanistan war veteran who suddenly finds himself projected back in time to the site of a horrendous terror attack on a commuter train in Chicago. His job is to figure out what happened, so that the authorities can prevent further attacks from occurring. The technology that allows him to relive events that are not only in the past, but in other peoples' past, is called the "source code." That is the science fiction element. If you don't buy that, you won't buy the movie.
Anyway, given that he can re-live other peoples' pasts, he must find out what happened, and try to find the perpetrators so that they can be stopped from causing further damage. BUT.... unbeknownst to the technicians running things, they are not just creating a simulation of past events. Nosiree Bob; they are creating alternate universes! It is up to Jake G to figure out how to get the most bang for the buck out of the situation, salvage his estranged relationship with his dad, stop the terrorists, and of course get the girl in the end.
All in all, it is a highly complex story with many possible interpretations. Sort of "Inception" crossed with "Groundhog Day." I liked it. What did you think?........Jake
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