Friday, August 24, 2012

Source Code

Source Code is a 2011 American science fiction techno-thriller film directed by Duncan Jones, written by Ben Ripley which released on April 1, 2011.

The story starts when soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man on a commuter train traveling to Chicago. After eight minutes, a bomb goes off on the train and he awakens to find himself strapped inside a small geodesic dome. Through a screen, Air Force Capt. Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) explains to him that he is actually Colter Stevens, a decorated army helicopter pilot, now on a mission using Source Code to discover the location of a bomb aboard the train and identify the bomber who detonated it which destroyed a train headed into Chicago.

Stevens has no memory of how he became involved in the Source Code project; his last memory is of flying in a recent mission in Afghanistan while taking on enemy gunfire. In an assignment unlike any of he's ever known, he learns that the train explosion occurred two months after an incident in Afghanistan which reportedly killed him. And his body are in fact on life-support at the Source Code facility while his mind is hooked up to a computer system, the cockpit being a mental projection of his own mind to cope with the experience of a compatible man's life for the last eight minutes within an alternate timeline. Angered to discover this, Stevens requests that his life support be terminated after the mission is completed.

Stevens re-lives the incident over and over again through different people until he manages to foil another attack and in the process unexpectedly falls in love with one of the passengers, Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan).

Stevens ask Christina what will she do if she knew she had less than one minute to live and she reply "I'd make those seconds count". Stevens and Christina kiss in the last seconds before the eight-minute mark. In that instant, Goodwin disables his life support per his request and the scene reveals his actual, physical body as severely mutilated and comatose. Time freezes, but to Stevens' surprise, find himself finishing the kiss,  still aboard the train with Christina, saving the rest of the passengers which all remains in the alternate timeline (universe).

Make Every Second Count
Life can be long or short, it all depends on how we choose to live it. 
It's like forever, always changing. 
For any of us our forever could end in an hour or a hundred years from now. 
We can never know for sure, so make every second count. 
What we have to decide is how we want our life to be. 
If our forever was ending tomorrow and how would we have want it to spent. 

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