Source Code

Hopscotch

R4 DVD

From the highly acclaimed director of Moon (Duncan Jones) comes a new science fiction thriller, Source Code. An unusual film filled with challenging ideas and thought provoking concepts you will discuss it for some time later.

Colter Stevens, played by Jake Gyllenhaal is a highly decorated a US army helicopter pilot who crashed on a mission in Afghanistan. When he awakens, he finds himself in civilian clothes aboard a crowded commuter train arriving slightly late into Chicago. He is sitting across a rather attractive young woman Christina (Michelle Monaghan) who talks to him as though she has known him all her life. After some time he realizes he is in somebody else’s body that of a history teacher.

After eight minutes a bomb explodes and throws Colter back into what appears to be a damaged aircraft. There is a video monitor in front of him and he is advised that he is on a special mission. Again he is thrown back into the situation on the train. As he returns time and time again he finds he must find a bomb and locate the bomber since this is only the first of a number of attacks, the next of which it is believed will be a dirty bomb which could kill millions of people.

As the film progressed Colter challenges his commanding officer and is told that he is working with the “Source Code” a limited period after death in which an operative can step into someone’s remaining consciousness and use it to gain information. At the same time this, of course, triggers more questions than answers and Colter must face his own condition and the nature of reality.

With explorations of life after death, quantum physics and the eternal moral question of the “one versus the many” this is a superb work of science fiction. Using a limited range of special effects yet superb character acting and great twists and turns this will keep you in suspense to the very end.

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