People are more than data elements

Rating: 7/10 (16 April 2011)

Despite a failure to adequately adhere to or even define its own internal logic, Source Code is a very entertaining action thriller.
If there is a message, it's about the consequences of losing touch with our humanity in the information age.
This is evident when Goodwin's computer screens are finally revealed to the audience: while it's clear from the camera and microphone that Sgt. Coulter can actually hear and see Goodwin, Coulter's communications are shown only in scrolling text.
Similary, our society remains plugged in to various databases, Web sites and other forms of computer 'source code' that form a cold impersonal representation of who we are.
When Goodwin goes in to the room where Coulter's body is hooked up to the machines and sees him with her eyes, she is finally able to appreciate the situation from a perspective more human that not and therefore makes the 'Good Win' decision.