A really good parallel

Rating: 10/10 (3 May 2011)

I thought this was a great movie. The idea of using soldiers who are near death to do their duties in a place called the source code. A place where a human's last moment in history lives in the brain even after death. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a captain where on a mission is killed in action. A secret part of the government uses his body and brain to peer into the minds of victims on a train to find a bomber. But he has only eight minutes to do it each time because the victims memories only last that long after death. So, he goes in as someone else on the train in the source code to find a bomb, and the bomber to stop an even greater threat. Yet his thoughts dwell on his past which interferes with the objective. Seeing this as a new approach to his plight, he alters a few things to give himself a new path to stopping the crazed maniacal domestic evil doer. With him in the real world is Goodwinn (Vera Farmiga) who helps him in small ways as to be not noticed by her superiors. Now with his objective in sight, he stops the bomber and saves the people on the train within the source code. This now gives a new path for which alternative realities can merge within themselves, yet cause no damage. This movie held a great story, to see paths of lives changed because of a dead persons thoughts. The music was a little soft, but held better for dramatic purposes. Effects were fine, that really was not the story anyway. And the idea that now, it could be possible to use a person's subconscious after death. How to map it is something else. I recommend this film for those fans of the psychological thrillers, I do not recommend it for the idea of still using mid east tactics to sell films. We are past this, move on and away from the mid east, people do not need it in their lives anymore.