Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code (2011)

05.08.2014 um 14:50

Source Code (2011) is a powerful, exceptional revisitation towards the tradition of time travel. Filled with intricate details that seem very easy to miss, Jones brings a simplicity to the paradoxical aspect of time. Careful to avoid a loop that would compromise the entire plot (which I’ve experienced too often in such films), Jones helps us to conceptualize both the intricacies and the simple logic of time.

Desperate to save everyone, a soldier returns to the past in the body of a man in order to save the train from exploding. He essentially goes back again and again, each time learning something new. Each time he learns something new, we learn something new. It’s important to Jones, I feel, that we learn of the sequence and puzzle the future in the same way as the soldier.

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