"The movie doesn't change, but our perspective has."

Daphney 2022-04-23 07:01:01

Seeing that many people are full of doubts about this film, I personally feel that the logic of this film is clear and simple. You can understand it as a simple description of personal fantasy psychology, and then discuss what is real? What is phantom? You can also understand it as a time travel sci-fi film to discuss deeper issues such as time and space. As a fan of "Death Illusion", I prefer the latter, because the logic of this film will be more worthy of scrutiny if understood in this way.

The predecessors have already talked enough about other details, so I will not repeat them here, just express my own views. I don't know if you have noticed the dialogue when Shirley helped Cole with makeup at the movie theater. "This movie is like what we are experiencing now, like the past. The movie will never change, but every time I see it, it feels different. That's because we have changed, and you will have a different point of view."

I think this dialogue It is to illustrate the screenwriter's scientific view of time and space. Scientists do everything possible to change the past through a time machine, so as to change the ending of human beings being expelled. But the occurrence of various events made the participant Cole gradually understand that this behavior not only failed to change the past, but on the contrary, even triggered the further occurrence of the result. That is to say, the reality that human beings are driven to live underground is like a "finished movie", and all people are just spectators. We can have our own understanding of this "finished film", and we can also participate in it, but in the end It doesn't change the ending of the movie.

After watching it, I was a little disappointed. Twelve Monkeys was just a pretense, an innocuous supporting role. We were all deceived by the title of the film. But even this is more shocking than a simple science fiction film similar to "Avatar", which makes us think more about time and life. Looking forward to the next time you watch "Twelve Monkeys", what are your opinions?``````

The above are just personal opinions. I hope you guys can correct me.

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12 Monkeys quotes

  • [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.