Saw Source Code last night.
Loved every second of it.
And I tend to analyze any movie having to do with time travel from beginning to end, back to front, and if possible, chronologically.
I felt like I was seeing something I had seen before, and yet had no idea where it was going. Like reconnecting with an old friend, our last time together lost among a hazy fog of responsibility and crowded memories.
Speaking of memories…
There was so much depth to this movie. I was relating to a friend how I love movies that gut me and fling me all over the room, so that weeks later I will be thinking of a scene, and have to pull myself together, possibly even shed a tear or two. A great mark of a good film in my book.
Source Code, while not perfect, had all this in spades. Heroism, sacrifice, love, family, loss, death, and of course, life and the value therein.
It got me thinking of my other favorites:
Groundhogs Day
Deja Vu
Frequency
Back to the Future (the whole pickin’ trilogy
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Somewhere In Time
The Butterfly Effect
Terminator/T2/T3
Star Trek IV: Voyage Home
12 Monkeys
TimeCop
Star Trek (jj abrams style)
The Lake House
Army of Darkness
13 Going on 30
The Jacket
There probably a few others I am missing but I know I truly enjoyed all of these films just for the fact they all tinker with the assumed perks of time travel.
Through every story the main character grows to be a better person, or becomes a hero, or tragically learns that time should never to be toyed with in the first place.
And every story that moves into the amazing realm that is the theory of time travel, boils down to one major goal:
Making every second count.
