Who can tell me

Sadye 2022-03-21 09:01:03

I have to say that after watching the twelve monkeys, it feels like a nausea in the stomach, and there are a lot of things that I want to vomit. First of all, a movie with a great theme. People were almost extinct by a germ in 1996. Only 1% of the people still exist, but they can only live underground. People hope to return to the ground to live, but there are still such germs on the ground that humans cannot live on. In order to find this germ, a group of scientists sent our protagonist back to the past to search for these germs and bring them back for research.
But I have never understood whether the director wanted to create a story in which the world had been destroyed and James went back to get the germs, or all the illusions of two mental illnesses. If it is the first one, then why did the group of scientists still teleport the wrong era (1990.1920) after teleporting the wrong era for the first time, how did James return to the future underground from the past, and every time James What was the voice that called him Barbie before going back? How did the "beggar" whose teeth that were no longer able to go back had all been pulled out at a glance see that James is the man from the future world? If it were all the fantasy worlds of two lunatics, then the person in the future world gave James a real gun in the end, and the city before the outbreak of the germ, the order of the place where the scientist’s assistant is going is exactly the same. , Wait. The director gave so many loopholes without filling in them.
If the director fills in these loopholes, this film is really a good one.

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12 Monkeys quotes

  • [James Cole found a spider and knows he's got to take it with him, let's it crawl over his hand while deciding what to do with it]

    Jeffrey Goines: You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example.

    James Cole: Germs?

    Jeffrey Goines: Uh-huh. In the eighteenth century, no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person, anyway. Ah! Ah! Along comes this doctor, uh, uh, uh, Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, well, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. Ah? He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do you call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, cut to the 20th century. Last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger in this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. Jim, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is just a plot they made up so they can sell you disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See?

    [James Cole finally takes the spider into his mouth, Jeffrey Goines is either too deep into his talk or unimpressed by this and continues his talk as if nothing happened]

    Jeffrey Goines: Ah! Ah! There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion. You... you... you believe in germs, right?

  • James Cole: Look at them. They're just asking for it. Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.

    Jeffrey Goines: Wiping out the human race? That's a great idea. That's great. But more of a long-term thing. I mean, first we have to focus on more immediate goals.