Source Code story
Source Code is a 2011 American science-fiction action thriller film directed by Duncan Jones and written by Ben Ripley. Synopsis: A U.S. Army Captain is sent into an eight-minute digital recreation of a real-life train explosion, tasked with figuring out the identity of the terrorist who bombed it.
9 total · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| parallel universe | major | A grand revelation of the story is that the machine was not merely creating a simulation of the events leading up to the bombing of the train, but rather the machine had tapped into a parallel reality. |
| speculative technology | major | A main novelty of the film is a machine that somehow sent its occupant to parallel realities that were slightly different from the "real" reality. |
| speculative virtual reality | major | A main novelty of the film is a technology that uses collected memories of people who died in a train bombing to simulate an elaborate eight-minute long digital recreation of the events leading up to the explosion. Captain Colter Stevens was placed in the digital recreation in the body of one of the passengers. |
| terrorism | major | It was up to Captain Colter Stevens to figure out the identity of the domestic terrorist who'd blown up a passenger train before the same man set of a dirty bomb in downtown Chicago. |
| what if I repeated a portion of my life over again | major | The story follows Captain Colter Stevens as he repeatedly lives out the eight-minute lead up to the terrorist bombing of a passenger train. He carried over his memories from the previous times each new time he went through. |
| father and son | minor | Colter Stevens revealed that he'd had a falling out with his father. |
| memory erasure | minor | Dr. Rutledge had every intention of wiping Colter Stevens' mind. |
| nuclear weapons | minor | The domestic terrorist Derek Frost plotted to detonate a dirty bomb in downtown Chicago. |
| reconciliation | minor | In the end, Colter Stevens called his father under the guise of a fellow soldier and reconciled with him. |