1995 American science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeleine Stowe.
The story describes that in 2035, human beings are forced to live underground because of the imminent survival crisis of the deadly virus. A group of scientists solicited volunteers to participate in time travel, back in 1996, when the virus broke out, investigating the "12 Monkey Corps" that was rumored to be the source of the spread.
The unfortunate Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back to 1990 by scientists, when people sneer at Cole's apocalyptic warnings, and incoherently, he is put in a mental hospital, but meets Catherine (Madeleine Stone), a psychiatrist who often appears in his dreams, and Jeffrey (Brad Pitt), the son of a well-known scientist.
After many experiments by scientists, Cole was finally teleported to 1996, where he discovered that the virus originated in Philadelphia and kidnapped Catherine to stop the 12 Monkey Army, and the two gradually developed an affair. However, Cole's dream foreshadows tragedy, can the two save the fate of mankind and spend the future together?
The film combines the end of the world, time travel and love elements, which is a delicious hodgepodge. Although it was a 1995 film, it is still quite novel from the current point of view.
Bruce Willis plays the poor savior, who wants to have freedom at the mercy of scientists, time travel makes him mentally confused, and almost died in war, he has a violent history, he can not restrain his impulses, can only be regarded as a mental illness, even if there is no disease is also tortured into a disease.
Time travel can only be used as a tool to gather information in movies, and does not have the function of changing the future. All Cole does is let scientists get information about the past at the same time, trace the source of the virus, and study the way to deal with it in advance.
In this way, Cole is actually an incompetent savior, in addition to strong willpower and memory, his fate has long been predestined, whether it is to continue to be a pawn of scientists, or pretend to be crazy and stupid, and Fly away with Catherine, he will inevitably become part of the gears of fate.
The biggest highlight of the film is Brad Pitt's Jeffrey, sometimes crazy, sometimes witty, sometimes in a hospital, but helps Cole escape in the chaos. Jeffrey's strange thoughts are chilling, and the male protagonist once suspected that he was the initiator of the spread of the virus.
Brad Pitt won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role, and the crazy performance of jumping up and down like a clown in the film is a must.
In the film, 1990 is a period when human beings are still content with the status quo, but Cole's encounter with Jeffrey is not accidental, but more like a reminder to the audience: before the virus was raging, there was never more than one crazy person with extreme ideas, eager to destroy the world and punish humanity, but whether the terrible means could bring enlightenment to mankind was another matter.
Cole and Catherine are destined to meet and fall in love, Catherine as soon as she sees Cole, she is alone, giving Cole the opportunity to call, to say that she immediately fell in love with Cole is too far-fetched, but she is willing to leave aside the psychology profession, really believe in Cole once, treat him as an ordinary person, the two follow-up love seedlings will grow naturally.
Madeleine Stowe, who plays Catherine, is most famous for performing in the film "Revenge", and her appearance and figure are still not much different from those of that year, and the movie is dyed with kim and now Cole's dream, which is simply a haunting goddess.
In the movie, Catherine and Cole's relationship, from half-understanding to inseparable, desperately clinging to love in the later stage, and even want to go far away, such a poignant love with the advent of the end is amazing.
If the tragedy of love is certain, should it be a bloody end? The beginning of the film is the ending, everything returns to the original point, but the process is the focus, the storyline has twists and turns, the characters have emotional thickness, let the audience think about the end of the world, question the extreme ideas and means of scientists, the film also highlights its value and classics.