12 Monkeys

[frakkintalos]

The way they use time travel in 12 monkeys would follow the Novikov self-consistency principle and therefore paradoxes are not a concern. While what you see and the order is decided by Gilliam everything was part of the same continuum and nothing ever deviates from what it is, was and will be.

head 'splodes

See now, I’m not cleaning that up.

[Racetracks_Man]

I would like to suggest 12 Monkeys the rather underated Sci Fi tale starring Bruce Willis and directed by Terry Gilliam, a paradoxical tale of trying to stop the spread of a virus which leads to human abandoning the surface of the earth.

I know this movie didnt meet with a 10 on the Willismeter however its probably one of his best acting performances without the aid of an AK47

pleaaaaaaaaaaasee

Racetracks Man.

Glad to see there a few fans of this film out there and I opologise for posting in the ‘podcast arcs’ forum should have spotted the movies rewatch one instead, duh

reading through the thread, and without spoiling it for those who perhaps have not seen the film, I always thought the paradoxical element was the influence that time travel by Willis’s character had on past events irrespective of what he may have seen though it could be argued that what he saw could have influenced him in later years.

I cant make it any clearer than that

[BadgerSpoon]

What was really interesting about the time travel in this movie is that events in the future are set in motion by events and memories in the past, which are themselves only in existence because of interference from the future. Causality is completely circular.