Humans who hide underground like earthworms without seeing the light of day, and deserted capitals with eternal snow. These scenes are the usual imagery of science fiction films, but the motif of time travel is always renovated. The focus of this film is on the paradox of grandfather. The classic interpretation of , and the fact that Bruce Power is really suitable for the role of the supernatural tough guy, and Bradbite is also very suitable for the role of the ADHD hippie. Every time the male protagonist crosses and recalls, every phone call, every flashback affects or insinuates the slight distortion of the time pattern, and finally forms the shape of a Mobius ring, that is, despite the twist. Many times it is still an endless loop. The scientist's son may have been inspired by the hero in the lunatic asylum to think of the action of twelve monkeys, and the culprit of the revised version of the virus was also indirectly influenced by him. But the end of the film seems to open up a little hope that although the past cannot be changed, the future may change because of it.
Another highlight is the intertextuality formed by the film, music, etc. interspersed in the film. Hitchcock's films "Vertigo" and "Bird" allude to time, amnesia, trance of dual identities and the threat posed by the gaze of nature's Big Other. In the anxiety of taking on the mission of saving mankind, in the future desolation, it seems that only the blueberry mountain and the beautiful world in the old dream evoke the light in people's eyes.
The relationship between humans and animals, the boundary between madness and reason has always been a problem that plagues human society. How many species went extinct when human society developed, but it seems that nothing has changed for us. In turn, the extinction of human beings may make the entire biological world more "harmonious"? But cannibalism and self-destruction are where humans are different from animals. What would people think if we put people in a cage and let animals see us through the cracks in the cage? It seems that only human beings have reason and soul, but it is also because of this that human beings have mental disorders. The heroine in the film said that in our age, the doctor in the heart is the new god, who decides who is crazy and who is normal. But perhaps the lunatic asylum is really just a place where the majority of lunatics manage a few lunatics who are not in their interests.
In fact, what time travel is just a coat, the more you want to change your destiny, the more fueled the Oedipus-style tragic fate is the heart of the film. At the beginning of Eliot's "The Waste Land", above the ruins of civilization, the caged Sybil is unheard of, and death has become her desired destination. Interestingly, the film deliberately moved the cataclysm to the year of the film's premiere. When people who watched the film met a madman again, could they notice his Cassandra-like pain?
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