What are the Twelve Monkeys? It is an organization, and future scientists in 2035 suspect that they are a terrorist organization, suspecting that they released the doomsday virus in 2000, causing future humans to only be able to hide from the virus in the underground world.
But this is only a suspicion, thinking that future scientists do not know what kind of virus will cause the end of the world.
So they sent James, the prisoner, to the real world, hoping to investigate the truth of the matter and, if they could, to stop the catastrophe.
Future scientists in front of the time machine
Hawking once proposed that "you can't interfere with the laws of physics" – even if you go back in time, you are just an imperceptible "observer" in that space-time, unable to interfere with anything that has happened in the past. Once you interfere, you will change history, you may not exist, you will not go back to the past, which evolved into the later "grandmother paradox." ”
The inability to intervene in physical laws and the grandmother paradox has always been revered by time-travel sci-fi films, but the sci-fi film "Twelve Monkeys" breaks their constraints and cause and effect cyclically allows people to return to the past into history.
The first time in time, James mistakenly came to 1996, was considered a mental patient, and was locked up in a mental hospital. In psychosis he influenced the psychiatrist Catherine and the psychopath Jeffrey.
Catherine later became an authoritative psychologist, lecturing around, publishing the doomsday prophecies she had received from James. Jeffrey, on the other hand, was the leader of the later Twelve Monkeys.
James and Jeffrey in the mental hospital
Scientists found that James was sent at the wrong time, so they summoned him back, who knows the wrong time, sent him to the time of World War I, and then took a picture and summoned him back. This time the time was finally adjusted, sending James to the target time point of 2000.
When Catherine searched for information, she found photos of James's Battle I, and confirmed James's doomsday prophecy. At this time, Jeffrey's identity is once again revealed, and his father is the owner of a biological research laboratory and is studying a virus. So they insisted that Jeffrey was the leader of the Twelve Monkeys, and that they had unleashed the Doomsday Virus.
James and Catherine begin to disguise themselves to stop Jeffrey, only to discover that Jeffrey is indeed the leader of the Twelve Monkeys, but the Twelve Monkeys are an animal protection group whose plan is to release all the zoo animals in the city.
James recalls his dream and suddenly understands that someone else has released the virus, and he believes Catherine's doomsday speech and decides to release the virus all over the world.
James rushed to the airport to try to stop him, but ultimately failed, and he was killed by the police. James, who is in normal time and space, saw this farce and remembered it in his dreams.
However, James told the scientists of 2035 the truth of the matter before the temporary, and the scientists came to the modern era to obtain a sample of the virus, and the film ended.
Future scientists get the virus on a plane
The science fiction film "Twelve Monkeys" through clever design, the past, present, the future of the time alternate with each other, forming a cycle, avoiding the traditional time problem, put forward the time travel can not change the past, but can change the future of the new hypothesis, is indeed a novel and brain-burning masterpiece.