Between reincarnation and despair

Aurelia 2022-03-20 09:01:03

Between reincarnations and despair-feelings about
watching "Twelve Monkeys".



At first, I only believed that the greatness is the feelings, but at the end I was powerless to see that the strong and the destiny were destiny.
—To Cole and Lely.

Can going back to the past change the future? As a science fiction film, a science fiction film with the theme of time travel, "Twelve Monkeys" raised this question from the very beginning, and at the same time, it also used the protagonist Cole to make the film's answer:

"No, I'm not here to change history. No one can change history."

Yes, when it comes to time travel, I have to mention two theories, namely, parallel worlds (there is a parallel universe, and going back to a parallel past can change it. ) And the non-parallel world (the reality is fixed, going back to the past can never change the place that is contrary to the future), and this film obviously belongs to the latter. Cole was dispatched as an observer from 2035 to 1996. He was repeatedly told: the virus has spread, human beings have died, history has occurred, and nothing can be changed, so all he can do after he goes back is "observation." He wants to bring back pure virus samples, not to prevent the spread of the virus. It seems that from the very beginning of this task, there is a sense of helplessness and fatalism.

By mistake, Cole was sent to 1990 and met Jeff in the lunatic asylum. This is the "lunatic" who will form an army of twelve monkeys in the future. Perhaps it is not appropriate to call him that way. Obviously is the most sober motto! Thank you Pete for playing such a "normal lunatic" so vividly. At the same time, Cole also met his destined lover, female psychiatrist Lely. The camera flashed back repeatedly, and the people in the recurring dreams finally met here, but they didn't know it, and neither did we. Who can say that this is not driven by fate?

Cole, who came to 1996 smoothly, hijacked Reilly in order to complete the mission. Along the way, the barn’s predictions, the bullets from the wounds, and all the signs finally convinced Reilly of Cole’s doomsday prophecy and tried to prevent the disaster from happening, but she forgot the "Cassandra complex" mentioned in her book. , Cassandra, who is predictable but powerless, is not the one who knows the future! Lei Li called Jeff's father, a virologist, to remind him to be vigilant, so the twelve monkey army turned from the culprit of spreading the virus to the clown releasing the animals, but the rolling wheel of history did not stop moving forward, the virus The scientist's assistant got a chance and caused a disaster.

Without the twelve monkey army, there may be assistants, and without assistants, there may be others. This is the history, and the fate is like this. However, Cole did not understand that he could not only be a bystander after all. That flying body, how many times were flying, how many times were shots, and the death of "his" in the eyes of little Cole, How many deaths.

Everything is reincarnation, and the future cannot be changed.

Life and death, reality and illusion, past and future, reincarnation and rebirth. No matter how many times it changes, history remains silent, and only deep despair permeates time.

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Extended Reading

12 Monkeys quotes

  • [first lines]

    Title Card: ...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... /... The survivors will abandon the surface of he planet... /... Once again the animals will rule the world... / - Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990 - Baltimore County Hospital.

  • Jeffrey Goines: All the doors are locked too. They're protecting the people on the outside from us from the people on the outside who are as crazy as us.