I just finished watching S. Darko, the sequel to 2001's cult classic Donnie Darko. While Donnie Darko featured Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore and the younger, less mature versions of zomg Seth Rogen and Ashley Tisdale (omg really?!), this time around it's Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) from Gossip Girl and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) from One Tree Hill holding fort.
Look, I love movies about time travel, I'm a total sucker for them. There's just something so mysterious about wormholes and relativity, physics and the chance to do something all over again. I mean look at all these movies: Butterfly Effect, Click, Donnie Darko, Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban, Primer, The Jacket, Star Trek - time travel is their one commonality. Why is Time Traveller's Wife my favourite book? ZOMG I'm onto something!
What interests me the most about time travel is what I was talking to Ian a few days ago when he was talking to me and Jen about the upcoming Terminator movie. Apparently John Connor has to go back in time to when his dad was a kid to create an alternate reality. Basically Ian and I were discussing the two theories of time travel:
1. You can go back in time, but events are predetermined. Anything you do has no effect because everything that comes in the future has been predecided. There is no free will, a philosophical position known as determinism. In Time Traveller's Wife, there's this part where Henry comes from the future and is in the position to determine whether his father will walk in on him and himself naked, but no matter what he does, the door will always be unlocked and his father will always open the door. In the same way, he is never able to change the car crash that kills his mother, even if he tries to stop it.
2. You can go back in time and create an alternate path for events to follow. Basically, if an event happened, you could theoretically go back and change things so that it wouldn't happen. Most of the successful movies have gone with this theory. In this new path, there are consequences, but at least you can change what you didn't wish to happen.
So I think I'm going to start an entire time travel movie marathon now.
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There is another theory on time travel, based on the many worlds interpretation of the universe.
ReplyDeleteThe moment you go back into time, the universe bifurcates into one reality in which you did, and one reality in which you didn't. In that sense, you will never be able to change your 'own' reality per se (other than by removing yourself from that reality), but you will be able to create a new one in the new bifurcation.
Indeed, it is said by some that every possible universe that can exist, does exist. For every decision that you make, in one reality you choose A, and in the other you choose B. In other words, not only is everything possible, everything happens.
that makes a lot of sense, i didn't think about that. thanks jia.
ReplyDeleteIf I went back in time, I would alter my SRY gene on my Y chromosome and turn into Alice. WOO!
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