Movie Review : Souce Code [2011]

Groundhog Day was the first 'Time loop' movie that I have watched. I was completely fascinated by the idea. The movie portrays the time loop idea and how it affects the protagonist and others in a coherent and convincing way (mostly). It manged to be light heated and funny while deeply thought provoking at the same time. Though I was not completely satisfied with the ending, it stayed as one of my favorite movies.

I have watched few other "Time loop" movies after that but none of them stood out as particularly interesting. That is, until i watched "Source Code". This movie turned this idea into a fast-paced thriller and also gave a plausible scientific explanation to this strange phenomenon.

The other aspect of this movie that I very much enjoyed is it's puzzle like construction. It is difficult to figure out what's going on at the beginning but as the movie progresses the plot becomes more and more clear and at the end, everything fits together perfectly like a jigsaw puzzle.

When I re-watched the movie after a gap of 10 years, I was as engaged as the first time and also discovered many details I missed during the first watch.

One quibble I have with this movie is it's ending. It would have been a perfect ending if it stopped at the point where replay time reaches the 8 minute mark and everything freezes in a perfect moment. May be due to marketing purser, the creators had to extend it to give a happy ending at the cast of poking a big hole in the plot structure. The ending wasn't bad per se but does not fit in logically with the scientific theory the movie proposes.

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The notion that, 'What we perceive is the actual reality', is not only improbable but completely unnecessary from the evolutionary standpoint

The hard problem

There are two orthogonal, equally valid and equally unverifiable axioms about the foundation of reality that existed for a long time in our society. One is from the west, which is the scientific worldview. It claims that the world is made of matter. This matter came out of nothing, from matter came the life form, the simple organisms first and then the complex one. The complex organisms later developed a central nerves-system, from this emerged the mind and the consciousness. This consciousness, that ultimately emerged from the mater, enables the organism to perceive the material world back. The other theory is from the east, which is the spiritual world view. It claims that the consciousness is the fundamental aspect of reality from which the mind, thought and the objective world emerges. The former aims to unlock the mystery of reality by dissecting the matter. The later does so by introspecting the consciousness.

Reality Check

Most people assume that the world we perceive is the world that exists. It is fundamentally a flawed assumption. If you just probe this assumption a bit deeper, you will easily arrive at the conclusion that the world that we perceive is the world that we create. I am not saying that the reality does not exist or that we create the world through our imagination. What I am claiming is that the perception is not a passive act. Image, sound, time and space does not exist outside our perception. There may be something "out there" (if at all) that correlates to what we perceive . But, in order to perceive a specific form of reality, we have to create them in the first place. Don't forget that the unique point of view of one's individual reality does not exist without him. Every moment of perception is an act of creation through the subconscious process of our neurological network, that evolved over millions of years of trial and error. Let us examine in scientifi...

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