No old friends, no new love

Winnifred 2022-04-20 09:01:16

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A sci-fi special effect is almost zero, and the time is wandering in the past movies, how can it present an excellent sci-fi story? As a sci-fi time-space theme work, "Pre-Destination" undoubtedly gives the best answer. It is a one-man show with a big brain hole and a life that is repeated. It is quite unique in the application of the philosophy of time and space to the plot. The film uses this You can see the insight on the traversal proposition.


"Previous Destinations" is based on Heinlein, who is known as "the best writer of American science fiction". The story is created, and the adapted movie is basically faithful to the time node of the original. The movie has always been in the era of the last century. In the current era when various sci-fi blockbusters play with high technology and destroy the world, such a movie The seemingly "outdated" low-cost movie, but it repeatedly gives people infinite reverie and surprises in the plot. There is only one person in the whole movie, I fell in love with me, I gave birth to me, I killed me , This is a very absurd and bizarre thing at first glance, but it is alluded to by time and space in the movie. Every line, in essence, implies the plot trend of the next frame of the movie. The works that can really be called brain-burning are not It lies in how suddenly the final truth can make people realize, but in the process of searching for the source, which is intertwined like a cocoon.


On the premise of being faithful to the original work, the twin brothers Michael Sperry and Peter Sperry have given "Previous Destination" a better plot rendering. There is no tedious background explanation at the beginning. It's straight-to-the-point and fascinating. The five characters it creates, the time and space labor bureau agent who tracks down terrorists, the villain bomber, the abandoned baby girl Jane, the grown-up Jane, and the columnist of the emotional magazine, jointly build a logical consolidation. It is a huge mystery. The clever thing is that this mystery is not thrown out at the beginning, but as the plot progresses, people can gradually become puzzled by it. Time and space travel through the causal cycle brought by technology, and everything can be traced back to the source. People and things are actually their own. This kind of travel through time and space to change people and things, but in the end, it is found that this is the shackles that cannot break through fate, which is really intriguing.


Under the guise of science fiction, "Pre-Destination" does not talk about the exciting time-travel technology, nor is it a blockbuster that takes the scene. The film conveys a trend of irony about time-travel. One-man dramas are destined to be lonely and desolate. In the original work, the revived corpse originally refers to an existence that has life but no memory and is at the mercy of others. Any way of adapting the past will retrace its own track. The establishment of the time and space bureau is a preventive measure. Crime, and the truth of the bomber's murder also saves lives. This kind of contradictory confrontation and fateful entanglement makes it difficult for a time-travel movie to give people such dialectical philosophical thinking.


There is no old friend, no new love, only this, the ending is the beginning, a fateful reincarnation, in the dark, there is a certain number. (Reprint must indicate: the original author Mengli Poetry Book)

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Predestination quotes

  • The Bartender: [on cassette tape] Preparation is the key to successful, inconspicuous time travel. Luck is the residue of design.

  • The Bartender: You're about to embark on the most important job a man has ever had. And you're going to do great. I know.