☻ ☻ ☻ Source Code (2011). This is Groundhog Day for nerds, complete with an evil scientist (Jeffrey Wright) who lacks the standard social skills.
A young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up, and keeps waking up, on a Chicago commuter train to discover he's someone else. Less than eight minutes later, a bomb explodes, whisking him back to his own military pilot body. In a large metal capsule, to boot. Plus a demanding military type (Vera Farmiga) on a TV screen demanding to know what happened on the train. As the scenario replays, he learns more about the bomb and his role in the capsule.
The term "source code", refers to program or section of programming language understandable by the programmer. To be understood by a computer, it must be compiled into machine language. Our pilot learns that his mission, these repeating scenarios, is part of a project also known coincidentally as "Source Code".
Which one of these weirdos is the train bomber?
Our scientist is obviously not on the up-and-up, but he doesn't know half as much as he thinks. Smug, he spends the entire film ignoring the pilot's escalating questions and pleas. Just one more cog in the military wheel. Or is he?
And what exactly is the source code?
An interesting film than may keep you thinking days after it ends.
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