TA has nowhere to run

Joesph 2022-03-21 09:01:22

"There's Nowhere to Run"
- "The Former Destination" film

review

He's a real nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
- John Lennon, "Nowhere Man"

as a film Through the film, what I still can't understand is that John, as a special agent, killed the "bomb maniac". According to the logic of the plot (and also according to the public comments), he finally went to his own destiny and became a "bomb maniac". Aside from the passing doctor-prescribed footage of John starting to suffer from mental problems due to the number of crossings, I felt that the transition lacked dramatic and emotional undertones. If there is such a change, then it appears abrupt; if not, the plot cannot be self-contained. I think this is the biggest doubt about the movie.
Other than that, this film is special - it's a story of one person from beginning to end, where "I" falls in love with "me", begets "me", and then inevitably takes a designed path to become Writer, becoming an agent, becoming a terrorist, and reuniting with your past self time and time again. To a certain extent, "I" - this person who no one knows where she came from before falling into the cycle of fate - has been living in a world with only myself, saving in vain, changing and changing again and again in vain. destroy. This sense of loneliness brought to the audience by the special experience of the protagonist is unique.
It's a one-man show, and the protagonist never exudes any attributes that are meaningful or touching to anyone else (except, objectively, that he "moves the cause of the undercover agent"); all his or her emotional, functional shifts , all for their own sake or for themselves. His world—since he was inexplicably created—has been caught in an irreversible closed loop, which is his ultimate tragedy. I don't know what it's like to be loved only by yourself, and what it's like to finally realize that. In the movie, the career of the protagonist in his mature period (which is also the perspective of the film) requires him to give up all his personal emotions. It's what attracts me the most about the film.
Other film critics have explanations and speculations about the various theories about why the plot has progressed so much.

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Extended Reading

Predestination quotes

  • The Bartender: [on cassette tape] Preparation is the key to successful, inconspicuous time travel. Luck is the residue of design.

  • The Bartender: You're about to embark on the most important job a man has ever had. And you're going to do great. I know.