Environmentalism and Hitchcock

Unlike many time-travel movies, "Twelve Monkeys" doesn't focus on traveling through time and space to save the world or change things you don't want. Although the original intention of the plot is like this, because of the long-established cause and effect, Cole's final Struggling became futile, regardless of whether another, more terrifying possibility—it was because of his crossing behavior that the virus spread, was true or not. But I have to admit that even if it is not the assistant of the scientist or the Legion of the Twelve Monkeys to do this, it must be someone else, because the direction of history is like this, the only difference is in the subtleties, the subtleties It's just that people can't notice it. Moreover, the position has been stated at the beginning: that closed ring is impossible to have branches outside the ring. This is also a point often expressed in many circular narrative films that appeared later, such as: "Terrorist Cruise", "Butterfly Effect" and "Butterfly Effect", the role of the protagonists is no longer the changer of events, but only bystanders or Trigger.
Of course, Terry Gilliam's crazy joke style is also indispensable in this film. So, I think the typical one is the director's "love" for all kinds of entangled, intestinal-like pipes. These pipes are not like the ones in "Alien". It is full of metal and technology, but it gives people a dirty feeling of being pieced together from a waste recycling center. But they are all to create a small and cramped space. This kind of scene distribution is the external cause of the protagonist's mental disorder in terms of content, and will make the audience feel a sense of oppression and tension in terms of form.
"Twelve Monkeys" shows more than one place, this is a film with environmentalism, as follows:
1. The title of the title:


"In 1997, 500 million people will die from the deadly virus, the survivors will abandon the surface, and animals will rule the world again"
2. At about 112 minutes, the Twelve Monkey Corps liberated the animals in the zoo, and a theme song ushered in a period of soothing Light music, on the highway, animals running happily, humans seem to be non-existent, and cars are stuck on the road;
3. Cole said to Kitherine in the car What a wonderful world is his favorite song, which was later used as a song. The ending song, and this song praises the wonderful world:
I see trees of green, red roses too
I
see them bloom for me and you I see them bloom for me and you
.
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I think to myself
, what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The
bright blessed day, the dark sacred
night Blessed day, precious night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky , how beautiful it is
in the sky


Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends
shaking hands saying how do you do They 're really saying I love you. Saying I love you I hear babies cry I watch them grow They 'll learn much more than I'll never know And I think to myself what a wonderful world Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world. Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world but the whole film , whether it is the future (or "now"), or the past 90s, the world in which humans live is not beautiful, not "wonderful", but for animals it is certain, the last animals in the past ran happily on the highway. Therefore, this wonderful is relatively non-human. Multiple Tributes to Vertigo 1. Opening



















2. Vertigo from Twelve Monkeys

3. The third place needs to be set up, that is: the protagonists in both films have doubted their self-identity.

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