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The film was then selected for the opening night gala of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), held at the Hamer Hall venue on 31 July 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. The MIFF promotional material described Predestination as a "distinctive blend of sci-fi, noir and crime fiction with a Bukowskian streak."
So, the movie starts with Ethan Hawke talking to John - "The Unmarried Mother". (S)he shares his story about how she used to be a woman (Jane). Some space travel story is thrown into the mix. Basically, as a young woman (raised as an orphan) she meets a man who impregnates her, but leaves her after a one night stand.
- Characters and Jargons
- The Plot, Linearly Deconstructed
- Theories
- ‘Predestination’
- The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever?
- Final Word
It is safe to assume that if you clicked the link, you have watched the film. So, without further ado, before getting on to dabble with complexities including recurring time loops and voids, let’s get to know our main players, and how I’ll be referring to them in the explanation, per my understanding. Baby Jane: The orphan with an unknown ancestry ...
Before attempting to understand the plot any further, it would do us a world of good if we understood the world that this story is set in, and then proceed to deconstruct the plot linearly. Time travel has been invented in the year 1981, allowing travelling between 53 years into the future or the past. In the wake of said discovery, an organisation...
Let me try to theorise this, in terms of physics, some mathematics and some basic geometry. One can argue that the three loops operate independently of each other in time, and yet when they converge, a major shifting of events takes place. The convergences are bridges to the other loop, all linearly moving, yet continuously repeating. Before I conf...
Let’s begin this section with a rather interesting piece of dialogue from the film. “Our first mission is just as important as our last. Each one getting us closer to our final destination. See, you’ll find out that time has a very different meaning to people like us. Time catches up with us all even those in our line of work. I guess you could say...
With all explanations offered and plot twists accounted for, we find ourselves wondering at the age old anachronism, the pining question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? What is the cause, and what is the effect? Scientists and researchers may have a definite answer now, philosophers still don’t. The film dabbles with these questions, wit...
‘Predestination’ may not end up satisfactorily answering a lot of the questions it raises, but it is bound to raise a brow or two with the flawed genius behind the big idea of it all. For those who like to think and prefer their films with a side of thought-fodder, this film is a haven among the woods. For those who don’t, it will either blow up yo...
Predestination: Directed by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig. With Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Sommers. As his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975.
- (309K)
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
- 2015-01-09
May 15, 2023 · On the surface, the movie is about a special investigator (Ethan Hawke) who can travel back and forth through time to catch criminals, and his current case (and the last one before he retires) is ...
- 2 min
- Jo Berry
PREDESTINATION chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. — Anonymous.
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Predestination. A temporal agent (Ethan Hawke) embarks on a final time-traveling assignment to prevent an elusive criminal from launching an attack that kills thousands of people. Rent ...
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