"Twelve Monkeys" is definitely the best sci-fi movie in the "Back to the Future" genre. Generally, the selling point of sci-fi movies is only the dazzling stunts, but this movie also uses the time difference between the future and the present to satirize and challenge many concepts and systems that we are accustomed to, especially in the words of the lunatic Jeffrey. It's a classic. What I admire most is the difference between the normal and the lunatic in the film. Is it "normal" to buy cars, houses, and entertainment like everyone else? Like everyone, is it "normal" to ignore nature and other animals living on this planet? Is it "normal" to treat another person with prejudice and suspicion like everyone does? Like everyone, to define another person's "abnormal" according to their own subjective, is this called "normal"? The biggest irony of the film is here. A large-scale virus invasion destroyed 5 billion human beings, and the remaining human beings (normal thinking people) tried to trace the source of the virus, so a prisoner who was imprisoned for violating "common sense" was asked to "voluntarily" return to the past . They thought that everything might have been done by a group of lunatics called "Twelve Monkeys". It's rather dark humor that James was stubbornly regarded as mentally ill by people at that time no matter what era he went back to. Psychologists have authoritatively determined that James is abnormal, and psychiatric theories have also proved that James is a lunatic, and even James himself believes that he is a schizophrenic! His movement was always restricted and he was even shot dead by the police. The answer is revealed in the last ten minutes of the movie. It turns out that "Twelve Monkeys" is just an animal liberation organization. What they want to release is not a virus, but animals in a zoo. The real virus releaser is another person whose behavior and words are more than normal, a scientist's assistant. And the victims and accomplices of this disaster are just like us, most of them - "normal people"! Alas, poor lunatic, sadly normal.
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There are many things that can make people think about "Twelve Monkeys", such as fatalism, subjective and objective, democracy and autocracy, etc., but today I want to write about the relationship between time and space in the film, which is what I am most interested in: After this film, I always have a question, one is why Jeffrey (Brad Pitt) appears in James (Bruce Willis) dreams? It couldn't have met Jeffrey during James' childhood. Jeffrey was obviously the first time James met when he went back to the past when he was an adult. I always thought it was a little trick played by the director to divert the audience's attention. Put the Twelve Monkeys in the light and hide the real black hand (the professor's assistant) in the dark. But if you think about it, it's not all like this, or there is another explanation, so today I watched the fragment of the dream again. This dream appeared three times in the film, but each time was different. At least, a different focus. However, before explaining it, it is necessary to clarify the time-space relationship of the film. In the space-time of "Twelve Monkeys", time is the "only" ray, or one of the axes of the four-dimensional space. As James has repeatedly emphasized, what has happened is always there and cannot be changed. Otherwise, his mission should not be just to track down the source of the virus as an Information Gatherer, but to directly save the earth. In other words, if you can change what has already happened, it is equivalent to having a node in the middle of the "only" ray, and another ray is drawn from it: +----------->All human beings are safe and sound | 0 -------------+------------> 5 billion people killed by the virus is impossible in Twelve Monkeys. So, a question arises: Suppose James was born in 199X, accepted a mission to travel back in time in 2035, and met Jeffrey for the first time in 1990. So for James in 2035, does "meeting Jeffrey" happen in the "past" or in the "future"? People who are subjective and idealistic may say it is the future; those who are objective and materialistic may say it is the past. And "Twelve Monkeys" does not dwell on this issue. It does not deny any of these concepts, but only explains it as a problem of looking at the same shield in different directions. In fact, there is only one shield. It looks white when viewed from the front, and black when viewed from the back. If we want to go on here, we will digress to the subjective and objective issues that have been discussed for thousands of years, and return to the relationship between time and space. ——In the time latitude of "Twelve Monkeys", "everything is doomed"! "James was born in 199X" is doomed; "Accept the mission in 2035" is doomed; "Meet Jeffrey in 1990" is doomed; "Wrong back to World War I, shot in the foot" is doomed; Yes, "the attempt to change the fate of mankind in 1996 failed (and then died)" is also doomed. In the logical time and space of Twelve Monkeys, where there is cause and effect, there is no such event as "James goes back to the past and kills his childhood self" that cuts off the "originating cause". And in this time and space, the receptors of time and space (such as a person) are unique. No matter which time and latitude it travels in, there is only one "you". In 1996, there were two James, old and young, but they were just the same person, the same time-receptor. Back to the dream that happened three times. In fact, in James' childhood dream, Jeffrey didn't exist, James just dreamed that his future self was killed by the police. The second time, because James, who returned from 1990 to 2035, has met Jeffrey, so his dream has added Jeffrey's face, but this is actually different from James' childhood dream. The third time in 1996, this dream has nothing to do with the space-time discussion. It was purely because I met the beautiful doctor Dr. Railly, and the lustful heart together, that I clearly understood that the beautiful woman who appeared in the dream was the person in front of me. OK, that's roughly the case, I hope I didn't confuse you. Finally, the 1995 (68th) "Twelve Monkeys" nominated (from Oscars. org): ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -Brad Pitt COSTUME DESIGN -Julie Weiss These are just nominations. It's a pity that this film didn't get any Oscars that year. In fact, for people who like this movie, it doesn't matter whether they can be nominated for an Oscar or win an Oscar. Oscar is just a commercial game. But without these awards, a movie loses a lot of credentials for future generations. The last thing I want to see is this movie being forgotten along with a lot of Hollywood entertainment rubbish. People remember this movie, or it's just because there's a handsome Brad Pitt in it...
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