After making a memorable debut with the fascinating film Moon in 2009, director Duncan Jones returned to the genre of science fiction with Source Code, a film that takes up the eternal fascination of human beings with the ability to travel through time.
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Year: 2011 Category: Science Fiction, Thriller. Director: Duncan Jones Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright.
Plot
With the help of a machine with a computer program that recreates the last 8 minutes of life of a person, a soldier is introduced into the mind of a teacher, after he suffered an attack on a train to see how the accident and find out who is to blame.
Opinion
A man who is part of a mission awakens in the body of another person in a train and has only eight minutes to find out who has placed a bomb that will blow it up. Only eight minutes, nothing more. As the spectator will know, the protagonist fails numerous times in his mission and returns, as if it were a curse, over and over again. A premise that may remind the movie The Groundhog Day of 1993, although Source Code is not exactly a time travel movie.
Through a fascinating premise of science fiction, totally impossible but a little credible, the film addresses a subject that allows reflecting on life, on the human being and the infinite range of possibilities that are ahead when a decision is made. Once again, good science fiction dealing with subjects as old as man. And also achieving one of the most entertaining films of recent years.
In the film it does not have an accelerated assembly, of two thousand shots per second, there are no spectacular effects, no ambiguous script turns or cheats. What it does have is rhythm, emotion, and spectacle. It is a small, modest, simple film, and it is precisely in that modesty that it manages to reach the viewer in a forceful and direct way.
The greatness of this film does not lie in its conflicting plot in which again and again the protagonist must find a terrorist to avoid more tragedies. At a certain point in the story, the film tells us something much more important, the enormous distance that separates our desires from reality, what we always yearn for and what we really possess. How many times do we have to experience the same sensations or live the same experiences to realize what we really want?
The film explains it in the simplest way possible, in an open science fiction setting, where what really matters is not who is the terrorist, that maybe is the most predictable element of the story, and I think that totally intentional, does not matter how the protagonist is sent to the train, or what is the source code. That would be the plot on its surface, but within its powerful images, the film reveals another story, one in which the choices that are made determine the future, and the memories that weigh us can be released with a simple phone call, that in which reality is always harder and cruel than desires, only possible in a dream or parallel universes.
What would you do if you knew that you have less than a minute to live? Make every second count?
Trailer
Score
7/10
If you liked Déjà Vu with Denzel Washington, of which I will review later, this film is quite recommendable for you, since the plot is similar, but with the difference that the trips are not to the past, but to alternative realities. The film makes us exercise the neurons with some questions without it becoming boring in the least. It has a lot of action, elements of the police movies, mystery and humor. All these elements are integrated organically and nothing seems forced, so I consider it a recommendable movie.
