Terminator
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger / Michael Bean / Linda Hamilton
Traversal Equipment: Unknown
Span: 0 to 45 years
Crossing Nature: Terminators or Resistance fighters can be sent back decades
Effect of crossing: Small events can be changed (e.g. Judgment Day can be postponed), but it cannot change the overall course of history, Skynet will inevitably be defeated by the resistance, so Skynet's attempt to rely on the Terminator to eliminate John Connor's trick must be futile
Can you meet your past self: Theoretically, yes, but in 1984 Calres was not yet born, and the Terminator T-800 has not yet been produced
"The Sharp Turn of Time"
Directed by: Jean-Marie Poire
Starring: Jean Renault / Kristen Clavel / Valélie Le Mesier / Marie-Anne Chazelle
Traversal Equipment: Traversal Potion
Span: 800 years
Traversal nature: substantial crossing, which disappears in the original age and appears in another era
Effect of crossing: According to the plot, there is no impact on modern times, pure French comedy
Can you meet your past self: the age is too old to verify, maybe you can find your own tombstone
The Time Traveler's Wife
Director: Robert Svenk
Starring: Rachel McAdams / Eric Barner / Alex Feris / Ellis Howard
Traversal Equipment: Ability to traverse
Crossing span: 0 to 30 years
The effect of crossing: Unable to change anything in the past or the future, the course of history will not deviate from the twelve monkeys in the slightest
Whether you can meet your past self: Yes
"Time and Space Clues"
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington / Paula Button / Fang Kimmer / Jim Cavize / Adam Goldberg
Travel equipment: space-time detection satellites, analog image reproduction computers, head-mounted space-time cameras, and space-time teleporters
Crossing span: 4 days
Traversal nature: substantial crossing, disappearing in the original world, appearing in the parallel world, the parallel world is about four days behind the original world
Effect of Traversal: Cannot change the past of the original world, but can cause an impact in the lagging parallel world, and the parallel world will develop a different result from the original world
Whether you can meet your past self: Theoretically, you can meet the self in a parallel world
《Source Code》
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Jack Gyllenhaal / Vila Famiga / Michelle Monahan / Jeffrey White / Russell Pitts
Traversal Equipment: Brainwave Source Code Restoration System
Crossing span: 8 minutes
Traversal nature: Extract the brainwave data of the deceased for 8 minutes of pre-death remnants, restore the previous world with computer assistance, and place it in the active brain for exploration
Effect of traversal: It cannot affect the real world, but if you die in the real world, the parallel worlds that exist in the brain, or the world of consciousness, will continue to exist
Whether you can meet your past self: Theoretically, you can, but even if you encounter it, it is only a virtually generated character
The Butterfly Effect
Directed By: Eric Bresse / J. McGee Gruber
Starring: Ashton Kutcher / Amy Smart / Eldon Hansen / Rogan Lerman
Traversal Equipment: Diaries and Memories of Strange Abilities
Crossing span: about 20 years
Crossing nature: Reading the diary can make time temporarily rewind the time recorded in the diary, re-playing the self at that time, equivalent to "taking regret medicine"
Effect of Traversal: Small actions during time regression can cause a huge change after time is restored. And once a point in time is crossed, the corresponding diary no longer exists, so it cannot travel to the same point in time again, and each crossing can only travel to an earlier point in time
(Plot setting, the protagonist has no habit of writing a diary after crossing)
Back to the Future
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J. Fox / Christopher Lloyd / Leigh Thompson / Crispin Glover
Crossing Gear: Time Sports Car
Crossing span: 10 to 200 years
The effect of traversing: Going back in time to what you did can make earth-shaking changes to the existing world
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