So, I just watched the movie Source Code. Not bad. It's not a great movie, but it is entertaining. The only thing that hindered my enjoyment at all was the fact that it was a lot like Deja Vu - but without Denzel Washington.
One thing that I didn't like about the movie was that it involved time travel. The inventor of "source code" tried to assure the main character that everything that he did didn't matter because he wasn't actually traveling through time, he was just living out the last 8 minutes of somebody's life.
This doesn't make a lot of sense, however, because if it were just memory, then how could he get different results? How could the dead person's memory contain the alternate dialogues and actions that never happened? How could he experience what he has not seen because it was not what he had observed? OK, that sentence sounded confusing, but here's what I'm saying. If Sean Temptress, or whatever his name was, was sitting in his seat flirting with the girl for the last eight minutes, then how could someone living through his memory explore the next cab over, the gun-containing closet, outside the train, or inside the white van?
So, the explanation for this, I guess, is that he was actually going back in time and changing something which caused them to be in an alternate reality from what they had begun with. This led to him at the end of the movie laying in his box with the head scientist guy saying that some day they will be able to use the main character to prevent something. This means that he had successfully prevented the terrorist attack, but how?
Also, anyone that has ever thought about time travel at all can tell you that changing something in the past will mess up way too much for it to just be okay for this guy to keep doing it.
The movie does have some fallacies, but so does every other time-travel movie since Back to the Future and Flintstones meet the Jetsons.
One of the good things about the movie was that it was clean and funny, and it was entertaining. You wanted to know what happened next, while enjoying what is happening now.
Overall, it was worth watching for the entertainment value and the thought-provoking nature of the plot. But you'll probably still breath in one second and breath out the next even if you don't watch Source Code.
