Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann story
The film follows a well-known dirt bike motorcycle racer who is in the desert competing in the Baja 1000, a multiclass vehicle cross-country race.
8 total · 4 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| grandfather paradox | major | The grand revelation of the film was that ClClaire, whom Lyle had made passionate love to, was in face his own grandmother. The possibility was left open that Lyle had impregnated Claire, so we are left to ponder whether he is his own grandfather. |
| infatuation | major | Lyle and Claire really hit it off. |
| life in the American Wild West | major | Lyle Swann traveled back in time to 1877 and experienced what life was like in the small frontier village of San Marcos. |
| time travel | major | The dirt bike motorcycle racer Lyle Swann back in time to the Wild West after he rode through a field that a team of scientists had generated for the purpose of sending an animal back in time as a test. |
| American Civil War | minor | Claire mentioned about how her brothers died in this war. |
| incestuous relationship | minor | In the end it was revealed that Claire, whom Lyle had made passionate love to, was in face his own grandmother. |
| science as magic to the primitive | minor | The local Mexicans assumed that the red-clad, dirk bike riding Lyle Swann was the Devil himself. |
| the Devil | minor | The local Mexicans assumed that the red-clad, dirk bike riding Lyle Swann was the Devil himself. |