Twelve Monkeys Summary

Michael 2022-04-21 09:01:03

The main contradiction of the big plot
: j looking for a virus
Premise: the irresistible fate of fate? Human cruelty to animals, normal people to the mentally ill, and future scientists to abuse criminals that ultimately lead to their own destruction? Act 1: j goes out

to collect samples until j escapes from the cell
Contradiction: j is looking for the virus but no one believes him

I saw various animals during the collection.
Sequence 2: j came back and cleaned his body. Scientists used the pardon as a lure to let j participate in their scientific experiments
. Caught by the police, k communicated with him in prison and tried to treat him, but failed
sequence b: j was detained in a mental hospital, washed his body when he was admitted to the hospital, met g, g introduced him to the situation of the entire mental hospital, his words were full of To be sarcastic, j tells g that he is not crazy
Sequence c: Doctors rate j's mental health, j tells them why he is here, but no one can understand j, j asked to call, success, but not the right one
Answered
the phone, was sent back to the mental hospital Make trouble and help J escape (maybe G thinks J's thoughts are similar to his own, so he helps him escape, and he will have someone to take care of him when he goes out in the future), J barely escapes, and finally encounters a psychiatrist who moves without the patient's consent Surgery, finally caught, imprisoned, and then mysteriously disappeared

Act II: Sent to the old world for the second time, searched with k, and was sent back to the new world when the police were about to catch it
Contradiction: personal conflict between j and k , it's still about virus

sequence 3: there was a recording in 1996 (because the past data was passed back, the future is based on the entire past, so even the future is doomed) Scientists interrogated j, and decided to put the j sent back to the past again (for unknown reasons, maybe just out of the ruthlessness of the scientists)
sequence? :j travels back to World War I, shot in the leg
sequence g: k's speech, about the Cassandra plot, the criminal appears after the end (foreshadowing), was kidnapped by j when leaving the
sequence h: j asked to go to Philadelphia, and k in the car exchange on. k recognizes j, thinks j is still crazy, j is still obsessed with the task.
Overnight in the hotel, the relationship between the two eased.
Going to Philadelphia by car, I found the icon of 12 monkeys on the way, k gave up and ran to check
the sequence i with j: j and k broke into the base by mistake, killed 2 people and got a gun. Then I came to the Animal Protection Association and learned about g, so I drove to find g
sequence j: on the way, k took out the bullet and further deepened the relationship with j. But in the end j shuts k in the trunk of the car.
Sequence k: j came to the banquet hall, communicated with g, but failed, attracted the police, fled to the car, released k, j gradually collapsed, believing that he had released the virus, three views collapsed, and traveled back to

Act III: No. Sent back to the old world three times, j was by accident/destined to be killed, and failed to complete the task
. Contradictions: j and k exchanged positions, three views changed, and finally reached an agreement

Sequence 4: Scientists appreciate j's excellent completion task, and gave j a pardon, but j already believed that the real world was fake, the scientist injected the tranquilizer
sequence l:k to narrate the facts of j's crime, went home and found that the "prank boy" three views also began to collapse, and asked the teacher for help, but failed. The police called to explain, but during the First World War, K was shocked. He flipped through the documents and found the photos of J during World War II. Three Views of Destruction
Sequence 5: J applied to return to the old world again.
Sequence m: k doodles in front of the base of 12 monkeys, meets j, and the two flee to the hotel. j wants k to heal himself, he would rather be a lunatic;
k thinks what j said is true and wants to know more. The feelings of the two deepened again, and they wanted to call to confirm. Violent passers-by passed by and were beaten by J, who pulled out his teeth with a knife.
Sequence n: Two people go out and make a phone call. K thinks it is fake, but j says that they have heard the call, and their values ​​gradually converge. k wants to satisfy j's wish to go to the sea, the two go shopping, disguise, and go to the cinema to make up.
Sequence o: g kidnap his father, release the animal, the revolution succeeds
Sequence p: two people go to the airport, split up, k meets the criminal, j meets Cauchy, Cauchy shoots j, but does not know who to kill. Criminals show the virus to the police as they go through security. k came over and said that he saw the criminal, j wanted to kill him, (but why? Does he still think he can change history? It has already happened, so the virus will spread, j is only here to retrieve the virus sample, then say this This history is also destined. It is destined that someone will send it back from the future, but can't get the sample? At least it didn't get it. I don't know if other people got it.) The result was beaten to death by the security guard, K was sad, and was killed by the small j sees, little j keeps dreaming)

Character value:
j: unswervingly carry out the task - think he is a murderer and want to stay in the old world - give up the task and want to stay in the old world - re-execute the task
k: unswervingly want to heal j - researching j's plot (cassandra plot) - doubting one's own beliefs - for j
g: explaining the hospital / satirizing reality - helping j escape (because j might help him in the future?) - conspiracy












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  • [first lines]

    Title Card: ...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... /... The survivors will abandon the surface of he planet... /... Once again the animals will rule the world... / - Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990 - Baltimore County Hospital.

  • Jeffrey Goines: All the doors are locked too. They're protecting the people on the outside from us from the people on the outside who are as crazy as us.