The plot has been revealed at the beginning of the film. This is a quotation from a mentally ill patient. The director has kindly told the audience that this is the cause of the film. So many of the later storylines come from patients’ fantasy, but it is impossible that all of them are fantasy, otherwise the movie would be meaningless. What plots belong to what happened to the protagonist Cole? We can be sure that it was what happened at the airport when Cole was a kid. Because of this incident, Cole hated humans at the time, thinking that humans could kill people violently at the airport, and they were almost on the brink of extinction. Animals dominate the world, and humans can only live underground. This is also the main thread for the development of the story. Cole has repeatedly dreamed of this. This experience when he was a child was also the cause of his schizophrenia. And we will also know later that Cole never thought of saving people in this era, he was only responsible for getting virus samples back to the future, and it was impossible for him to save humans in this era he hated. What other plots are true? The movie first cuts into the future world. Is this real? Let’s take a look at the equipment that Cole is going to collect and wear on the surface. The innermost is a set of rubber underwear, then a rough armor made of unknown materials, and a plastic bag at the end. Even the anti-virus suit of World War I is better than this. Strong, wear this in the future? If someone says that's the way it is, then okay. Let's take a look at Cole's first surface work in the future, the icy winter, what do we see? Bears, bears do not have to prey and hibernate, but they are not interested in seeing Cole. Live insects, insect vitality is so powerful? Lion, where is the animal of the lion? So short fur can survive in the snow? Apart from this, I just saw the monkey spray picture on the ground and the sentence "we did
Cole’s first mission should be to collect information, not to bring back virus samples, because there will be virus samples in the future, and there is no need to bring them from the past. And we also know that the virus mutates quickly. If you take samples from decades ago and study it, even if you can make medicines, they are still unusable. Speaking of the end of the film, we might as well talk about the female scientist at the end of the film. She sat in the position early and actually knew that there had been a shooting at the airport. Some people said that she had traveled back home. Then she was too desperate, and dared to shake hands with her assistant to bring the virus. The last line is also very controversial "I'm in insurance", some people understand that she is a scientist who will insure the future of mankind. Let’s take a look at the 90-year-old mental hospital. A patient yelled "I'm insured". That's right, these two places echo each other. This is not a female scientist. This is a female doctor. She can only provide insurance for mental patients. The next six scientists are actually doctors. The scientists were fantasised by Cole.
In the future prison, we learned from Cole and Jose that the volunteers have gone and never returned, and those who have come back are only heard. But then we learned that going back and forth is a very easy thing. Cole was locked up in 90 and went back in one go. Jose also suddenly disappeared in World War I and returned to the future. Where are all these people who can't go back? Nostalgia for the past and do not want to come back? We knew from the airport Jose Mouth in 1996 that this is impossible. Even if you extract your teeth (this is interesting, it's purely Cole's self-directed and self-acted), future scientists will be able to find you. There is only one possibility, all dead like Cole. Jose said Cole is a hero (actually Cole said to himself), why should the hero die? Since Jose already knows everything and can save Cole, why not threaten Cole to kill Catherine instead of saving it? If Catherine is a person in reality, you, a future person, can kill people in the past? No, Cole and Jose can't do this, and people in the future can't casually die in the past. This will affect history. Moreover, in 1996, there will be many inexplicable unidentified corpses. It is also weird. (If the DNA of the corpse was examined and found to be exactly the same as the kid at the time, wouldn't it be even stranger?). You see, so many contradictions here can't be solved according to normal logic science fiction movies. Some people may say, isn't it an amnesty? If the amnesty is really granted, the virus problem will be solved. Why should Cole go for it? Someone wants to stand up and say that Cole must die. This is his destiny. This moment really happened when Cole was a child. I can't help wondering, when a person is a child, he can see his future self dying in front of his own eyes? Someone mentioned the theory of the big cycle here. I don't know what the theory is. The theories of other science fiction films cannot be applied here, just like the masters of Jin Yong and Gu Long cannot be compared. If the big cycle is the original creation of the film, then why can the male lead alone be able to cycle? Because he is sick. The real situation is this: Cole was not the man who was shot, and Catherine was not the woman at the airport. Jeffrey and his dad’s assistant were not the ones who spread the virus. These characters were filled by Cole himself. of. By the way, I find it very strange that humans can really live underground for that long? How to live without the sun and what to eat? I feel that it is very likely that Cole has been mentally abnormal since the airport incident and is often locked in the basement by his parents.
Before entering the real plot, let's get to know Cole. Except for the two time points of childhood and 90 years, we don't know anything about Cole and don't know what he does. He can't drive, it's definitely not because he lives underground, because that doesn't exist. The real reason was because he had mental problems and couldn't learn to drive. The police didn't find his fingerprints or criminal record. I think his parents kept him at home. Does Cole know he has schizophrenia? knew. You can refer to Washington in the 90 plot. Washington tells Cole his story of schizophrenia in a serious manner, and Washington himself clearly knows that he is schizophrenic. And in the 96 plot, Cole has repeatedly admitted that he has schizophrenia and fantasies. Cole has repeatedly mentioned that he is a strong-willed person, but in the first mission that crossed 90 years, he was arrested by the police because he was nervous on the street, and he was called to a psychiatrist for telling the secrets. Obviously, Cole is a weak-willed person. Ordinary people who attack the police, even if they attack the police, will not talk about their secrets everywhere, and they can't rest on a lot of sedatives. We know that Cole's full name is James Cole. When Catherine called him James, he said that no one called him James. Is it really? No, let's see what Riker's mother called him at the airport? That's right, James! Some people would say that Cole remembered it wrong. Other things are hard to say, but how mother calls herself, this shouldn't be wrong. This shows that Cole is indeed schizophrenic. Most of the time, he does not want to be the poor James who witnessed the airport shooting, but Cole who wants to save future mankind. Cole traversed many times, but some and only the first time he became unconscious and had major problems. Not only was he arrested in the police station, but he was also called to a psychologist. Because this time something really went wrong, 90 was a real era, and he was indeed ill. So at the end of the 90s, Cole was locked up in a small room. It was impossible for him to escape. He was exhausted and started his fantasy from then on. The first thing Cole woke up was a voice blaming him for messing up the first time. In fact, he blamed himself, and then immediately began to arrange his plot, because what just happened was closest to him, he made the following arrangements: Jeffrey became the villain (in the dream airport, before this dream was not arranged for specific characters to show up), Jose also messed up the first time he crossed (he can get self-comfort), and Catherine gave a speech (she It's a psychologist) and so on. Speaking of this strange sound, it appears repeatedly in the movie. There is only a sound, not one's own body, only attached to others. What kind of thing is this? From a sci-fi perspective, from The answer was not given to us from the beginning to the end, but the voice gave us the answer "I may be your fantasy." Yes, this voice is Cole's own, talking to himself.
In the real 90 world, join two very important figures, the psychologist Catherine and the patient Jeffrey. Throughout the 90-year plot, Cole was given an overdose of tranquilizers, all in a trance, but what happened was deeply carved into Cole's brain, providing a lot of material for the subsequent fantasy. Although I am not schizophrenic, sometimes I am not awake when I dream, and I can hear someone speaking or other sounds in reality, and I can also run into my dreams. Let me talk about Catherine first. Catherine was a psychologist in 90 years and was very professional. This is definitely the real Catherine. Let’s take a look at her profession: "I don’t work for the police, I work for the government, and what I care about is your welfare." "I want to help you, I need to know what’s going on." Are you a patient in a county hospital, have you been in a mental hospital before" (this is probably why Catherine is familiar with Cole), etc. If we don’t preconceive the movie as a science fiction theme, the police’s This conversation is a normal conversation between a doctor and a patient. When Cole said that the air here is fresh and free of bacteria, Catherine laughed. This is a simple common sense. Catherine would help Cole, so Cole remembered her, and later imagined that she was alone with the poor airport woman she had seen as a child. Let's take a look at the conversations between several doctors and Cole in the room. It is also a normal conversation between doctors and patients, and Cole appears to be a mental patient. Catherine said she didn't know where she had met Cole. This sentence is too subtle, and makes people subvert the cause and effect. Let’s talk about the photo of Cole and Jose first. Who has such a good memory and an impression of the fuzzy non-protagonist in a picture I’ve seen before? It is estimated that only picture books can do it! In fact, we can look at it from another angle. It is precisely because of Catherine's words that Cole connects his fantasies with her closely, until she finally imagines her as the poor woman at the airport when she was a child. Then why Catherine said this sentence may be unintentional, or it may have been true. For example, when she was an intern, she met Cole and was taken to the hospital by her parents for treatment. Next is another very important person: Jeffrey. See how he appeared: the administrator yelled a few words about Goins, no one responded, and then he called Jeffrey before he appeared. From this we can see that Jeffrey is abnormal. Although Jeffrey is a lunatic, he has a normal side. He can distinguish between administrators and patients, and can introduce patients. Many of his words are reasonable. Let's take a look at some of his words." Only a few people really have mental problems, I’m not saying you’re okay, as far as I know Business and monkey mean to remind Cole that the key in his hand is used to escape, but Cole apparently connects monkey and Geoffrey closely and makes him the boss of the monkey army. Let's take a look at what else is interesting in the hospital. Cole ran away with the help of Jeffrey. At the door, someone said to him, "Now is the best time to go on vacation in the Florida Keys." Later, 96 Cole hijacked Catherine in the car, which was also a Florida advertisement, and Catherine It was also a ticket to Florida (actually Cole bought the ticket, Catherine came from Cole's split). Next to the escape elevator, a security guard reading the newspaper suddenly became a white-headed soldier escorting Cole in the future. Why is this happening? In fact, the director wants to tell everyone that at this time, Cole is already in a trance, seeing things have been confused, and reality and fantasy are no longer clear. This character also appeared in the 96 airport elevator, indicating that his spirit is abnormal no matter in the future or in the 96 airport. Cole escaped and broke into a department. It was supposed to be scanned. This fluoroscope happened to be the model for his next crossing. During the first crossing, we didn't see him lying down and being sent into the time machine, right? Take a look at the second crossing. This is simply the patient entering the fluoroscope. Everyone is wearing a mask next to the time machine, just like in a hospital! ! Let’s talk about where the inspiration for the time machine comes from. We can also see the time machine in the hotel cartoons in 1996. It can be seen that Cole usually watched many cartoons. We can guess that if Cole had been in a mental hospital before, he also watched a lot of cartoons. Speaking of the time machine, we know that Cole was sent the wrong time the first time. The second time the scientist repeatedly assured that there was no problem or sent it to the wrong place, Cole was shot. Such a broken time machine also went around a big one. The circle is sent to World War I and then sent back to 96. The strange voice told Cole that "these scientists always make mistakes", indicating that Cole did not fully approve of the doctor.
50, Cole began to doubt himself, "Jeffrey said that the virus was what I thought of. Did you say that humans were wiped out by me?" It seems that the lunatic also had a clear moment, and he thought that he had mental problems many times later. Cole returned to the future for the second time. By this time, he was very confused, and he couldn't even figure out what he imagined. He told the scientist that he had swallowed the spider and brought back the sample, but he didn't know that his current mission was not to collect samples on the surface, but to travel back to get clues. Jeffrey's companions were very angry that Jeffrey had revealed the plan to Catherine in advance. Jeffrey's explanation was clear enough, and what Catherine was doing now changed the future, which was originally not allowed. Let's take a look at the film they watched in the cinema. This is "Victorius" released in 1958. Cole actually watched such an old film, and in 96 the cinema was still showing a 58-year-old film? "I remember watching this movie when I was a kid." Of course, he was from that era. In 90, Cole should be at least over 40 years old. Think about Cole's hijacking of Catherine's car. He also likes music from the 80s. The mall where they disguised themselves to buy props was exactly where Cole first performed the mission, look at the little angel. Wait, there are many scenes repeated.
There is a scene that may confuse many people: Cole dreams that the person carrying the virus at the airport is Jeffrey, but in the end he becomes an assistant. Some people say that it is because the journey has changed history. I think this kind of argument is more nonsense, and there are more things changed. Is this person Jeffrey? Impossible. In the hospital in 1990, he was talking about a bunch of bacteria on the surface, but in fact he was talking about crazy. He is mentally ill, it is impossible for him to be discharged from the hospital to the airport. In fact, don't entangle too much, these are originally Cole's fantasy, the information provided by the film is also limited, there are not many assistants' shots and lines at all. He went to attend Catherine's lecture, either as a doctor or with mental problems. He wanted to destroy mankind with a virus, but his spirit was abnormal. This person is one of the subjects of schizophrenia. His business and Jeffrey's monkey jointly completed the monkey business (prank).
What has been unclear is why I can leave a message to the future over the phone. There is also a time machine for time travel, how can voice travel? Let's take a look at the machine that deciphers speech. What is this? It's like a tape recorder. Telephone voice messages are very common in the United States, but the idea of recording messages from the past is really a genius, but genius and mental illness are only one step away.
Most of the word Doctor means doctor, but it also means doctor. So the doctors, scientists, and virologists in the film are all called doctors. This is also a very subtle point. I won't explain it.
Why does the movie set the airport plot as 96 years? Because the film was released in 1995, the director tells everyone by the way that I don't even know the future.
This film, when viewed as a science fiction film, is by no means a qualified science fiction film. When watching a schizophrenia movie, the more you want to figure it out, the more you will find that it is more unclear. You will be regarded as a neuropathy after you watch it a few times. My level is limited, I can only analyze so much, and welcome your valuable comments.
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