1. If this is a schizophrenia film, then this is a schizophrenia film with rigorous logic, but in fact this is a time and space shuttle film of a single world.
2. If you think of this as a schizophrenia film, then you will find many realistic materials of the protagonist's schizophrenia in the film-such as: a. The appearance of the space-time shuttle in the film is very similar to the shape in the cartoon of the mental hospital ; B. The number and sex ratio of doctors in mental hospitals are the same as the number and sex ratio of future scientists, and neurotic scientists are more like doctors in mental hospitals; c. The bears and lions seen when collecting specimens on the ground are the airport The modelling on the posters nearby; d. "disinfection" in the mental hospital and back to the future; e. The scientist asked him to collect spiders and the plot of him swallowing spiders in the mental hospital; f. The abandoned churches and churches he saw in the future The airport mall is actually the same scene; etc. In fact, this film is indeed a time-space shuttle film. Through these, the director creates a sense of indistinguishability between reality and fantasy, so that the audience can better understand James as a forced Carry on the pain of time travellers. Similarly, the film also tries to allow various supporting actors to interpret the blurring of people’s definition of madness and normality (in Foucault’s view, there is no eternal boundary between rationality and madness. On the contrary, this boundary is changing with time. Before 1600, there were no psychiatric hospitals in Europe, and lunatics wandered freely on the earth. At that time, they were the lepers who were excluded as social "others").
3. As the slogan of the film poster says "The future is history", in a single world, history cannot be changed, and any behavior that attempts to change history can only become a part of history. One of the reasons James was sent back to the past was because of his cleverness. He was only completing the task of collecting information, and did not try to prevent the Twelve Monkey Army from releasing the virus, because he knew that history cannot be changed, only that can change Unknown future. As another protagonist Raily, she firmly believes that humans can be saved by preventing the release of the virus, but she does not know that her "future" is actually history. And James gradually forgot about this while he doubted himself, so James tried to save mankind, so he was shattered by history.
4. The person who released the virus in James’ dream has always been Brad, and he became the assistant of the doctor at the last moment. Many viewers think that history has undergone a slight change, but the trend of progress has not changed, and everything they have done has not changed. result. I think this is problematic, because according to the logic of the film, the history of a single world is doomed and cannot be changed. Therefore, the reasonable explanation for this dream is that James did not clearly see the virus carrying the virus when he was young. The look of a blond man, and after meeting Brad Pitt, because he is also a blond, James’ subconscious automatically replaced the vague face with Brad’s. Of course, there is a big bug, because that dream comes from his childhood experience, so it is impossible for James to see his own face. This is because the director takes care of the audience.
5. In the last part of the film, Curt from the future gave James a gun. James took it for granted that he should use this gun to kill the doctor's assistant to save humans. Many people think this part of the plot is problematic, and I think so. Of course, the problem is not that Curt came to the scene 5 minutes after James left a message, because 5 minutes and 30 years are the same for the future, but he has no reason to give James the gun to prevent the release of the virus. Because Curt must be sent by future scientists, and scientists know that history cannot be changed, so I boldly guess that Curt’s task is not to give the gun to James, but to kill James and Rilly, but he I couldn't bear to do this, so he handed the gun to James to let him run away, and James misunderstood the move. But in any case, there are still some minor flaws in this part.
6. At the end of the film, the doctoral assistant and the future female scientist are sitting on the same plane. The assistant asks what the scientist does, and her answer is "I'm in insurance". Many people understand that the woman who sold insurance in the past became a scientist, or that the scientist actually wanted to destroy mankind, but in another way of understanding that combined the information before the film and the line, and that the appearance of the female scientist is exactly the same as the future. Look at these clues. The female scientist is the “insurance” sent by the future after receiving the information. In this way, she obtains the unmutated original virus and develops vaccines after returning to the future. If she only reads the Chinese translation of the lines, she thinks she is only selling insurance. In fact, it was misled by the subtitles team. Sometimes these key lines still need to be read in the original. So, even though James is dead, the movie can barely be regarded as a good ending.
Another question about this:
How to explain the old voice that keeps appearing in James' mind from the beginning to the end of the film? My understanding is that the prototype of this old voice comes from the toothless beggar in Philadelphia, and from his knowledge of James’ information, it is very likely that he was a future observer who lost his message before James. , The voice in James’ brain may be due to his constant doubts during the time and space travel, and he gradually really suffered from schizophrenia, but this does not explain why James could hear that voice before he saw the beggar. Why does that voice always call James bobby? I hope the expert can explain it.
In short, this film is worth watching carefully. It's not easy to make such a 95-year old film. And Brad Pitt's performance inside is still very attractive!
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