It is fascinating how we all are living in our own reality, gifted with existence, are given a history, we inherit a legacy of our own and are capable of creating our own, how it is up to us how to seize each day with an attitude of our own. “I am a shithead, like my father before me”, all the good stuff. We all are born free of any restrictions, nobody’s future is set in stone, we make or break our own lives. It is true we can not decide what will happen to us, but we can decide how we will handle the situation, what kind of attitude we will have towards it and after all is over and done will we be able to thankful for the experience or just be brooding all over it.
The predestination paradox is a sickening one, I still remember how baffled i was when i first saw this movie, it was on my mind for days and i was telling about it to literally anyone i know and just couldn’t stop after all these years i couldn’t just get it out of my head, how the protagonist, Jane or John is tormented all his/her life and basically he exists to suffer endlessly. Also what I was starstruck from was the little amount of time John and Jane spent together gave him motivation to live out rest of his life fighting to keep those 3 months with him.
The unmarried mother had lived an unpleasant life, she could sense how she was different from other girls, absolute genuine genius simply cannot over come social awkwardness, she thought she was better than all of them and couldn’t hold any conversation. It is pity full how the only meaningful conversation she had over the years was with a different version of herself and just by imagining that sort of thing I feel grateful for this life i have, friends and family all the bickering aside I’ve got substance in my life and I’ve got people who truly love me and would take a bullet for me . Regardless she was a hypocrite who was exposed by himself, she longed for love it was on her mind all the time and she denied even the idea of love. Then John came along breaking new ground along with her heart, blessing her with Jane who took away her womanhood and made her the man behind all the shenanigans.
I truly believe that John was more in love compared to Jane cause he puts out his everything to save that time together, the reason that he is desperately trying to catch this fizzle bomber is because if he succeeds he will lose that sweet sweet time.
You are the best thing that ever happened to me and I miss you dreadfully.
Imagine everyone you ever loved, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your mentor, your child, your parents all of them are you at different points of time in your life so yes you will fight your heart out to protect the best thing that ever happened to you, you. Also this makes the protagonist the most selfish and selfless person on the planet at the same time, not sort of a Daniel Bryan as champion of the planet who cursed everything to save everything nature but like I’m saving my loved ones, but the loved ones I’m saving are me from a different time.
I’m also really excited for the upcoming flashpoint movie, I think if they can work this paradox into the movie then it can become a really great movie just for the sake of this and well do better amongst other things DC. And i really want them to not open up the multiverse because none of the characters is cemented and the two who were aren’t even bothered to work with DC anymore.
I find it funny how Playboy rejected this short story and then how Robert A. Heinlein then had to publish this in Fantasy and Science Fiction. I guess all good things don’t come from Playboy. Anyway, this movie was based of ‘All You Zombies’ a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein.
The point of this movie is our history and legacy is both a gift and a curse, you cannot run from it, dread it, it still catches up with you, haunts you and will always be a part of you, its in your blood. Getting rid of it cannot be an easy task, you can be born free from it by the presentation paradox and it freaking sucks or you can just simply kill everyone in your family and then go to jail like Tom Felton did in the series Murder in the First. You have been gifted with something, own it and it will give you power and be the source of your pride.
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