Analysis and Review of Source Code Movie

Source Code with its unique twist on the classic time-loop scenario, brings mystery, action and a refreshing sci-fi structure for the audiences amazement. This strike, standardized numerous sci-fi thrillers of the past, plays on societal issues with technology and its potenti ally dangerous implications to the world. The plot, although minimalistic at a glance, unfolds with twists and turns that carry this sci-fi thriller to places never before seen by the sci-fi genre. As film reviewer, cocksucker Bradshaw, put it, with twists and turns, and at breathtaking speed, this film runs on rails. 1 Science allegory is a genre that is almost wholly based upon societies complicated affinity with technology and its potential implications on society. In the film, the main technology presented is a program unsurprisingly called Source Code. The program allows our lead character, Colter Stevens, brain to feeler the body of a man who is already dead. The technology works by accessing the last eight transactions of persons memory and turning it into an alternate reality. It is set forth by its creator, Dr. Rutledge, as a tool for revisiting rather than revising time. by dint of rootage code, Colter Stevens becomes Sean, a victim of a train-bombing popside Chicago. Although the train-bombing has already occurred, other acts of terror are imminent in downtown Chicago. If Stevens is to engagement reference work code as expected he is to find out who is responsible for the train bombing and relay his findings to the people of the present so they may prevent further incidents. Each time his eight minutes are up, Stevens finds himself within a pod wired with a goggle box screen. This screen is his only link Dr. Rutledges unit and Stevens commanding officer, Colleen Goodwin.The pod is a metaphysical set created to explain Stevens thoughts and feelings. The room is essentially his mind and all that is going within it. The environment of the pod changes as Stevens comp rehension of the stead increases. The metaphysical nature of this set seems extremely intentional as thither are essentially only three different sets used passim the films entirety. The use of this pod like set is actually similar in nature to that of the sets from 2001 A Space Odyssey in the sense that they are combining wholly human elements nto technological environments. 2 Each time Stevens returns to the train, he gathers more information about the bomb, the bomber, and the other people on the train, including Christina, the love interest. at once Stevens returns with the name of the bomber his mission is over. At this point in the film, Stevens learns that he died in the helicopter over Afghanistan and now only exists within the source code. After learning this, he convinces Goodwin to allow him back in single more time to save everyone on the train and die lettered they were all saved.However, once everyone has been saved, he does non die and will red-hot as Sean f or the rest of his life. Source Code is similar to many movies from the fifties and 60s because of its use of relevant political issues to strike fear within the viewer. oftentimes like how the Cold War paranoia permeated science fiction through features like War of the Worlds (1954) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), the underway fear of terrorism trickles through Source Codes plot. 3 An obvious manifestation of this fear is the bomber himself.Derek frost appears to be a young, white, suburban male and because his appearance is not that of a stereotypical terrorist, Stevens overlooks him as a suspect initially. By using the least(prenominal) likely suspect as the antagonist, Source Code is challenging our current beliefs on terrorism that only non-Americans can be classified as terrorists. By creating this tall(a) villain, source code creates relevance to the disaster, and realism to the situation. The unlikely villain shows that through technology anyone can really bec ome a threat to society.The introduction of this average citizen villain prompts us to question our righteousness with technology. Here technologys power is illustrated because it transforms our average Derek into a super-villain capable of catastrophic events. On the other hand, we are in like manner confronted with the potential life saving readiness of the source code. Dr. Rutledge believed source code was only capable of saving lives that had not been already lost. However, the program enabled Stevens to not only save lives on the train, save also his own. Stevens doesnt just jump through action-flick hoops, he also confronts some Big Questions Are we alone? Are we free? Do we have free will? the importance of which become clear as the outlines of Stevenss true circumstances are revealed. 4 The implication of this vox populi is very apparent as Stevens becomes more aware of his situation. His initial experiences within source code are consumed by selfish tasks such as ac t to locate his father and find out what has happened to him.However, as he begins to pick up source code and believes that his life no longer exists, his motives quickly change. in one case Stevens begins to use source code for the greater good, he himself is also freed. This is a direct commentary on our usage of technology itself in that we fatality to use technology for the greater good and not for selfish means. It is this notion that we the audience is left to ponder. Will technology bring humanity to a never before seen existence or destroy our being entirely?BibliographyCook, David A. A History of Narrative Film. new-sprung(prenominal) York W.W. Norton. 498-499, 925-927.Bradshaw, Peter. Source Code Review. The Guardian. http//www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/31/source-code-review (accessed April 12, 2011).Dargis, Manohla. Dont Know Who You Are, but Dont Know Who I Am. The New York Times. http//movies.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/movies/jake-gyllenhaal-in-source-code-review.html (accessed April 12, 2011).