Confusion and interpretation

Arielle 2022-03-21 09:01:12

The greatest joy of watching this type of hard science fiction is to find a lot of confusion in the movie, and then study them one by one (although there are many still do not understand).

After a few confusions, I slowly figured it out, but it may not be correct. Please correct me:

1. The half of the body in the life chamber belonged to the American Captain Colter. He was implanted with the 8-minute memory of the deceased history teacher Shawn.

2. The male protagonist seen by the audience in the source code world is Colter's appearance. This is the artistic expression of the film. He looks at the outside world with his own consciousness. He should be the history teacher Shawn in the eyes of everyone in the source code world. Just as the actor sees himself as Shawn in the mirror of the train bathroom, the reflection in the big ball is also Shawn.

3. Finally, we saw that Goodwin received Colter's text message. The police sat in the professor's office and said that the prisoner had been arrested. This scene is not the real world, but the parallel world where the disaster that Colter finally created has been lifted.

4. Every time you perform a task in a parallel world, at the end of 8 minutes, Colter’s consciousness and memory will be automatically pulled back to the small black room, but if at the end of 8 minutes, the real world life support system is turned off, Colter’s When the brain is completely dead, his memory and consciousness will stay in his last parallel world forever, no matter whether he is alive or dead.

5. Every time Colter performed a mission, Colter ended up in death and returned to the small black room. Even if Colter got off the train, he ended up being run over by the train or shot to death. I think the end of death is that research. The organization was deliberately implanted into the source code to quickly recall Colter's consciousness to perform the next task, otherwise he will always exist in the body of Shawn in the parallel world.

6. Combining points 4 and 5, we can conclude that Colter's memory and consciousness can shuttle back and forth between his own incomplete body in the real world and Shawn's body in the parallel world, but as long as one of them is completely dead , Will return to the other party.

7. This research institution implanted Shawn's 8 minutes before his death into Colter's brain. In fact, it wanted to use the powerful consciousness of a well-trained US Captain Colter to solve the real world future in Shawn's 8-minute memory. The problem. So Shawn’s body in the parallel world contains part of Shawn’s memory and all of Colter’s memory. It’s just that Shawn’s own consciousness is covered by Colter’s consciousness, but Shawn’s memory only exists within these 8 minutes. Minutes, there will no longer be any Shawn memory in Shawn's body, and the whole body is completely occupied by Colter's consciousness and memory. So in this way, Shawn's body in the parallel world is completely invaded by Colter's memory and consciousness, which is not a humanitarian thing.

8. Wouldn't it be perfect if the ending stops at the end of 8 minutes? From the perspective of the movie's storyline, a sudden stop at the climax is certainly the best choice. But this result is not true. Because as long as Shawn's body in the parallel world does not die, Colter's consciousness can stay in it forever. This has been verified in point 5.

9. The "déja vu" situation that many of us have encountered at this moment is reflected in the end of the movie: Colter saw the big ball that once appeared in Shawn's memory in the ending of the parallel world.


Several puzzles that have not yet been resolved, ask the expert to answer:

1. In the end, his life has been cut off, but why is Colter's body still twitching? His memory was seamlessly grafted into Shawn's body in the parallel world he had saved, and Colter in the real world should be completely dead.

2. In the real world, isn't Colter's upper body still lying in the life chamber? When he called his father in the parallel world, his father said his ashes. . . what's going on?
2011-09-07 01:29:44 Little Fox Su has answered: The
"source code" mission is highly military secret, and it must be kept secret for Colter's father (at first I wanted to keep it secret for Colter), so naturally you can know The so-called ashes are fake, just like our news network.

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Extended Reading
  • Irving 2022-03-23 09:01:13

    "I thought it would be enough to die for the country once" to the initiative to ask Ying to return to the source code, this is actually a process of self-salvation of a confused Afghan war captain. Give me eight minutes, I'm going to save the world. I have always believed in the existence of parallel universes.

  • Kasey 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Small cost science fiction, the drama is unfolding. The story is very similar to the previous work "Moon". Although Gyllenhaal is very good and works hard, he still feels that this book is still not suitable for him. Speaking of it, it's a story of playing the game eight times and finally clearing the level to get HE. But when "I didn't see myself in the mirror" came out, Dai Jinhua really took advantage of it.

Source Code quotes

  • Colter Stevens: I'm asking you to have the decency to let me try.

  • [first lines]

    Christina Warren: I took your advice. It was good advice, thank you.