jobloffski
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Source Code was a great film until they ruined it with the ending. It makes no sense, if he's living within the last eight minutes of her friend's life, how can he live on and more importantly change the past through a memory. It's complete nonsense. It should have ended with his life support machine being turned off.
My thoughts exactly.
The film very neatly raises the quantum theory of parallel realities being created by the use of source code, and
1) When he gets the girl off the train, he survives BEYOND the point the man he is inhabiting would have died, and he sees the explosion which subtly implies a new reality has been created at that point, because if the eight minute thing was as solid a 'rule' as the scientists thought, he would not have been able to exist there past the eight minute point. But he did, briefly
2) He is still connected to the source code, so he is in two realities at once, the one he has created, and the one from which he came. It is pure chance that he gets killed in this parallel reality by being hit by a train (well, pure chance plus deliberately letting the train hit him so he can have another try at saving the train). This other reality continues from this point, presumably past the point of the radioactive bomb going off, etc, with Christina (if she survives the bomb) going on with the memory of seeing her potential lover die.
3) His death in the parallel reality returns his consciousness to the reality from which he originally came, but having lived in the 'past' beyond the point the person he is inhabiting originally died, the eight minutes of 'afterburn' off the dying brain is not the whole story, despite what the scientists think.
So, the main character can live on in the paralell reality he has created, was able able to contact the other reality by text because while the source code is being run, there is crossover between one reality and another.
The ending may be too cheesy for some, but it is both a happy ending and tragic story really, he (like the main character of Moon) is used heartlessly for the usefulness he can provide with no regard to human dignity, with the SC character even exploited after his service to his country and the physical cost of that.
And there is no plot hole in him living on in the newly created reality, since the film already showed time move on after the explosion earlier on. This was why he was so sure he could save the train.
As with Moon, a host of influences abound, but with the already established Jones trait, of a main character who is 'less than completely human' and has been exploited mercilessly, getting a chance to get turn the tables on those exploiting him, and doing so. Shame about the history teacher whose existence was 'taken over' I guess, but at least a very neat writer's bit there, a man without a future unless he 'overwrites' the life of a man whose primary interest is the past, and who was going to die in the train anyway.
Not as outstanding as moon, but pretty neat.
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 26/12/2011 10:03:42 AM >
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