If your life restarts without a save every 8 minutes, will you still find the meaning of life? The writers and directors came up and threw such a tricky situation onto the audience. After the first 8 minutes, through the dialogue between the male protagonist and the female No. 2, we know that the male protagonist is on a mission. He wants to find the bomb that killed him and the The person who planted the bomb, because although the explosion on the train could not be stopped, the culprit threatened to have an even bigger explosion. So the protagonist has to be killed again and again, and then start all over again. But in this cycle again and again, the male protagonist has doubts about the organization's attitude towards himself, and then investigates the organization and his own situation in 8 minutes, and finally he discovers an amazing fact, even he himself A dying person, the organization communicates only through his brain waves. This also explains that when the male protagonist is about to be trapped in his own imaginary operation time, the organization will be so indifferent, because no one can save him except himself. Of course, in the end, the male protagonist found the suspect. In real life, the police also successfully captured the suspect and prevented more deaths.
The ending of the movie is funny, the organization doesn't keep its promise to let him die when it's over after the actor has completed his mission. So he could only resort to the help of the female No. 2, who had been in constant contact with his brain waves. The female No. 2 ended up taking advantage of the organization's inattentiveness to end the male lead's life, and the male lead fell in love during the 8 minutes of going back and forth. The heroine on the train, when he was about to end the last 8 minutes of his life, found that although he was dead in real life, the space on the train continued. The form survived. In the end even sent a text message to the future female number two. Of course, because the male protagonist successfully prevented the explosion, the female No. 2 will not have the opportunity to communicate with the male protagonist in the future. The male protagonist survived as another person.
The film raises a very classic question, does parallel space exist? The director and screenwriter obviously think there is, because in the end he changed the direction of the future together. But unlike other similar films before, the male protagonist exists in the form of another person in the parallel space. That is to say, he entered someone else's body, continued someone else's life, and soaked up someone else's girl. As for the organization that invented this device, the director also asked their approach to involve more controversial topics. The organization leader still did not let the actor die after completing the task, but wanted to continue to let him live on only brain cells. Playing the role of God, and no one can control a person's freedom of existence, this is the freedom that Americans are most willing to discuss and the freedom that Americans advocate the most. The last few minutes are really procrastinated. Although the position on the parallel space is expressed, there is also less space for the audience to think about the possibilities.
I think in the end, although the male protagonist survived, it was in another dimension in the form of another person, so the text messages he later sent to the female number 2, including the bombing that did not happen, are all things in another dimension, which is different from the previous one. The space in which the film exists has nothing to do with it. That is, he prevented the explosion in this space, and left the organization with nothing to do when the explosion should have occurred, that was only in the space where he survived. As for the space at the beginning of the movie, things still happened, the bomb still exploded, he died in the end with the help of the second female, and he couldn't change anything.
PS: The director of this film is the son of David Bowie, the British Duncan Jones.
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