12 Monkeys Review PIF
- Dec 15, 2016
- 1 min read
12 monkeys
Plot
Bruce Willis place James Cole a convict from a post apocalyptic future where a virus has wiped out ninety percent of the human population and driven the survivors underground. He volunteers for a prison programme to cut time of his sentence by going back in time to gather information about the cataclysm. Usually in films involving time travel the goal is to go back to change a certain event, however in the 12 monkeys universe time works on a single stream everything in the past has already happened and cannot be changed. In the past he is imprisoned in a mental institution where he falls in love with his psychiatrist Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe) his mission now is to escape the institution and find out what caused the virus and return to the present with the information.
Philosophy
The films primary theme is Futility we’re made aware very early that the purpose of the time travel is not to change that past as it is impossible. What we know upon Cole arriving in the past is that five billion people will die and there is nothing he can do about it. This makes his would be romance all the more tragic because he can’t save her he can’t save anyone. The fact that they spend almost the entire movie on a wild goose only adds to the pessimistic futility that the film portrays. The movie opens with
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