Tuesday, July 26, 2011

What is the Source Code?

A picture of how Colter tries to re-live the
last 8 minutes 7 times and succeeding in the
8th time to stop the bomb.
"Source Code" a movie starting Jake Gyllenhaal is about a US Army helicopter whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan, but wakes up in a Chicago commuter train. The story is some what similar as Inception, though Inception has more in depth, and I got lost in the dream...

As of the "Source Code", this is what I thought..

Colter is living two lives, one as an unconscious, wounded soldier and the other in a perfectly healthy body except he lives in the body of  Sean Fentress and re-living the last 8 minutes of Sean Fentress life. Though at the final attempt of finding the bomber of the Chicago commuter train and stopping the bomb from exploding, he somehow manages to extend or to live beyond the so called "8 minutes"! It logically seems there are two parallel realities, but then I wonder, when Colter has flashback memories of the "Cloud Gate" sculpture. At this point I cannot confirm if he had seen the "Cloud Gate" before going to Afghanistan. If he had not seen the so called "Cloud gate" sculpture, then this could be not the first parallel reality,  but it could be a part of another reality. or am I just dreaming..or making any sense? ;-)

Another thing that struck me was, in the second parallel reality, Colter is living in the physical body of Sean Fentress but, also Colter's physical body exists in this reality going through the another "Source Code" event, and in that "Source Code" is there another third  parallel life, and who's to say, the same scene happening all over again? It reminds me of when one is standing between two mirrors facing each other..it becomes infinite...it is so confusing...as to what is real!


My conclusion: What is real? Is the life we live is real? or its just part of another parallel universe :)