Predestination is adapted from the novel-- All
You Zombies which is written by Robert
A. Heinlein who was called the
dean of science fiction writers. It is a story of a time travel agent. Predestination
chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) sent on an intricate
series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from
committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the
one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating
attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
This movie is talking about the Predestination
paradox.
The initial scene is an in medias res when an agent is
about to accomplish a mission by disarming a bomb, before the bomb explodes and
almost kills him, leaving extremely severe burnings, though he is able to
finish his work, being then sent to rehabilitation for a new mission.
The following sequence focuses on a dialogue between a barman and a young man
who writes newspaper articles, known by the pen name The Unmarried Mother. As
part of a bet, he tells the barman his biography, revealing he was born a girl
and was impregnated
by a mysterious man at eighteen, just before
discovering he is a hermaphrodite and needed an immediate sex change after
pregnancy in order to survive. He continues telling that things got even worse
when his baby was stolen and he was obliged to adapt to his new gender,
ultimately finding a way to survive by becoming a writer.
The
plot abruptly changes when the barman takes the young man (John) to a basement
and operates a time travel device in order to help the man in finding out who
is the man who abandoned him as a woman (Jean) and stole his baby.
Jean
John
In the end, we can find out the barman, John, Jean,
and the bomber are the same person. The barman wants to kill the bomber to save
the whole world. John wants to kill the man who makes he (her) pregnant and
steals he child. However, they find out the man that want to kill are
themselves. The snake eats its own tail. Forever and ever.
After watching this movie, I am so confused that
why her baby will become her, and why she can have a baby with the man (is her
after the sex change operation)? It doesn’t make any sense. Although this is a
great movie, it really needs to think. It is about revenge and love. What you
can save yourself is to love yourself. Even though you are abandoned by the
world, you still have yourself.
