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I've rewatched the movie recently. Humanity is definitly not saved. The whole quest is shown as being nothing a but a futile yet beautiful slice of life. It's e

I've rewatched the movie recently. Humanity is definitly not saved. The whole quest is shown as being nothing a but a futile yet beautiful slice of life. It's espacially underlined with the scene revealing the origin of the voice mail that was supposedly the only clue of the whole shebang for the future scientists.

dnautics 8y ago
Isn't humanity saved? The main character's buddy from prison is able to show up to try to save him because greatly improved the tech; he claims that mc is a hero and things are headed to being solved?
- Thaxll 8y ago
  The whole thing for that movie is he couldn't save humanity by going back in time.
  - taeric 8y ago
    I thought it was that he couldn't prevent the catastrophe. It is greatly implied that he found the cause and set the future scientists up to get a direct sample of what caused things, possibly reversing it in their time. What he couldn't do, was get what he wanted. He couldn't save his love, as she was of that time, and it was doomed.
    - dnautics 8y ago
      Part of this is because he had proven that you could bring back a useful biological sample, by eating a spider in the early parts of the movie
- nabla9 8y ago
  Not in the movie. They definitely can't change the past. They live in block universe where there is only one timeline that happens no matter what. They can only travel into the past and observe and bring some stuff back. mc is a hero because he discovers the real villain and sends message to the future. The idea is to get sample of the original non-mutated virus and develop a cure in the future so that they can live on the surface again, not to prevent the outbreak. The movie ends without a cure, but now the future scientists know who the villain is, so they might send other people to intercept the villain when he lands.
  - jlawson 8y ago
    I think the idea was that the woman scientist "in insurance" in the plane at the end was in fact the next agent working on getting the pre-mutated virus. She knew to go back to that time and get on that seat of that plane because Cole's actions pinpointed the target, time, and place.
    - nabla9 8y ago
      Ah, yes. I forgot that. There is in fact plot already going on in the last scene.
    - eternalban 8y ago
      Precisely. They have found the source, can take samples at each stop, and "get people back on top" post Cole.

dnautics 8y ago

Isn't humanity saved? The main character's buddy from prison is able to show up to try to save him because greatly improved the tech; he claims that mc is a hero and things are headed to being solved?

Thaxll 8y ago
The whole thing for that movie is he couldn't save humanity by going back in time.
- taeric 8y ago
  I thought it was that he couldn't prevent the catastrophe. It is greatly implied that he found the cause and set the future scientists up to get a direct sample of what caused things, possibly reversing it in their time. What he couldn't do, was get what he wanted. He couldn't save his love, as she was of that time, and it was doomed.
  - dnautics 8y ago
    Part of this is because he had proven that you could bring back a useful biological sample, by eating a spider in the early parts of the movie
nabla9 8y ago
Not in the movie. They definitely can't change the past. They live in block universe where there is only one timeline that happens no matter what. They can only travel into the past and observe and bring some stuff back. mc is a hero because he discovers the real villain and sends message to the future. The idea is to get sample of the original non-mutated virus and develop a cure in the future so that they can live on the surface again, not to prevent the outbreak. The movie ends without a cure, but now the future scientists know who the villain is, so they might send other people to intercept the villain when he lands.
- jlawson 8y ago
  I think the idea was that the woman scientist "in insurance" in the plane at the end was in fact the next agent working on getting the pre-mutated virus. She knew to go back to that time and get on that seat of that plane because Cole's actions pinpointed the target, time, and place.
  - nabla9 8y ago
    Ah, yes. I forgot that. There is in fact plot already going on in the last scene.
  - eternalban 8y ago
    Precisely. They have found the source, can take samples at each stop, and "get people back on top" post Cole.