Generally speaking, the movie itself is a closed loop, that is, from the beginning of the shooting that James saw at the airport when he was a child, he grew up and repeated the same dream (but the characters in the dream will change with the development of the storyline). James went back to the past and was killed in a "6" loop at the airport.
I have read almost all the comments and made a summary.
James was mistakenly returned to meeting Brad Pitt in a mental hospital in 1990. At that time, Pete had no idea of destroying the world or releasing animals, but under the action of sedatives and other drugs, this James from the future said a lot about viruses, humans, The idea of destruction is given to Pete (this is evidenced by the big passage that Pete said madly after he met James at his father's banquet), and James escaped the secret room magically, leaving a deep impression on the heroine. The second time travel back to 1996, perhaps because of the encounter with James in 1990, the heroine gradually became fascinated by time and space travel and other similar topics and opened lectures and books, and affected Pitt's father, the assistant of Dr. Virus. (He was looking for the heroine to sign at the time). One detail is that James had a dream when he returned to 2035 after his first time travel. The one who carried the sticker virus suitcase was Long-haired Pete. Nian did have long hair, and when Pete’s father was kidnapped, he said, "I don’t even have a password. I can’t get the virus." Pete said, "It’s too late, too late." So Pete’s original plan was not Not just letting animals fly), but because James went back to the past to change the course of history, the heroine was convinced that James came from the future and called Pitt’s father to prevent him from his son. Pete’s father did strengthen the security defense, so James succeeded in preventing him. Pete, just because the historical process has changed, there must be an effect for a cause, and the result has not changed (the result of the destruction of the world will not change, otherwise there will be no underground humans in 2035 to find ways to go back to the past to search for pathogens to develop antibodies), so the reasons have changed, Pete When Dad was kidnapped, he said, "Just in case, I did some measures." The subtext is probably that he has given the virus to his trusted assistant, so the assistant was able to spread the virus.
In addition, the encounter between the doctor’s assistant at the end of the film and the female scientist who originally appeared only in 2035, some people interpret it as a young female scientist at the time as an insurance irony (the truth is right beside them but they are searching hard), but I hold the opposite opinion. . Think about James as an adult in 2035, but still a child in 1996. How could it be possible that a female scientist in 2035 was as old as 39 years ago? So I guess it was James who made the phone call at the airport. The "Carpet Company" told people in the future that 12 monkeys were not the real spreaders of the virus. The scientist in 2035 found the truth. The female scientist personally returned to 1996 (because she was better than The doctor’s assistant had to arrive in the plane seat early, but she knew that there had been a gunshot at the security gate, and she gave out the "prophecy" that "we are all going to be endangered". Another detail is that after James' second travel in time and space, he returned. By 2035, a large group of scientists lying in the hospital surrounded him and said, "Now we can hand over responsibility to others, we are about to succeed." It can be proved) not to change the catastrophe of human destruction, but to bring the virus back to develop antibodies to regain the earth. Back to live on the ground, because the doctor's assistant had already released the virus when he passed the customs inspection at the airport, and there was no way to change the history.
The above is my summary. I have a question. Is the sound that has been in James' ears a toothless beggar (because the sound is indeed a beggar's)? But I don’t agree that beggars are james when they are old, and I would like to ask experts to advise
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following is what I quoted from the heroes Comments, expressed with "".
"2010-06-27 14:53:44 The flyawayx
poster is wrong.
" Second, the spread of the virus has a lot to do with one's own time travel. It can even be said that without one's own time travel, this deadly virus Won't show up. And these two points are exactly the two points in the Novikov self-consistency principle theory, "
No matter whether the actor goes back or not, the virus will appear.
The man at the beginning of the movie the main character dream spread poison is Brad Pitt
after the heroine to Jeffrey father called him prepare for his son
so later became his father's assistant Jeffrey, "
" 2012-05-1219: 29:54 Antarctic
In addition, I think the story of the girl in the orphanage that everyone looks forward to is actually a "6"-shaped structure. It starts one-way at a certain point, and then turns back at another point, reaching the previous midpoint. , And then started an infinite loop from that point... It doesn’t seem to be clear... Let’s make do with it..."
"2011-02-21 03:02:44 Bobby,
I think all of history cannot be changed...some people It may be said that the process of history will change.. But the result of history is the same.. I want to say that sometimes the process of history is the result of an earlier historical process.. Because the result cannot be changed... By analogy, the course of history cannot be changed... so the entire history cannot be changed."
"2011-02-23 20:10:13 Xiao Liang
On the surface, "Twelve Monkeys" is about time travel, so let's treat it as a science fiction film about time travel for the time being. James Cole returns from the future to the present, with the goal of collecting samples of the virus that destroyed most of humans 50 years ago and confirming where the virus began to spread. It should be noted that Cole is not a Hollywood hero who returns to save mankind: He can only observe history, but cannot change history. This is the theoretical basis of the film, and it is also different from previous films of similar themes. The poster of the film clearly says: The future is history. For the people in 1996, the destruction of mankind is still the future; but for Cole from the future, this is already history, and history cannot be changed. It is in this sense that the "future" of 1995 is Cole's "history", and the so-called The future is history means this. Cole understood this in the first place. In the mental hospital, he didn’t tell the doctors plainly: Save you? How can I save you? It already HAPPENED! "
However, at the end of the film, when he discovered the true culprit of the spread of the virus, he had forgotten the history. Changed; if he can really kill the virus spreader, wouldn’t it change history? Therefore, he is destined not to be a hero to save mankind, because mankind has been destroyed and cannot be saved. Cole wants to change history, but he doesn’t know whether
Juezhong is advancing along the path of destiny set for him by history-and his death is actually part of this history." "2011-04-24 02:18:39 [Logged out]
to the movie At the end, James very ironically began to believe that his so-called time travel experience was only a fantasy when he went crazy.
I think he said this to be with the heroine."
"2012-05-24 00:48:36 koala
ls, in fact, the murderer who really spread the virus was largely influenced by the lectures and books written by the female doctor, and the female doctor (probably) met Cole in 1990, although she did not believe Cole, But probably because of this incident, those thoughts, predictions of disasters, the goddess, etc. were born.”
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