Have you guys seen the movie "12 monkeys" from Director Terry Gillian, starring Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt and Madelaine Stowe? One of the best motion pictures of the 90's IMHO, that I feel sincerely does not enjoy the recognition it deserves.
Nonetheless, what I want here is to ask a specific question here, so first I give the very famous...
SPOILER ALERT
...for those who didn't see and/or don't want to know.
Do you remember that when James Cole (Bruce Willis' caracther) tries to escape from the mental institution and gets captured, sedated and restrained in a small room, he starts to hear a weird voice of an old man teasing him, right before he vanishes? And that he also does that when he is back in the hospital in the future?
I really never got where that voice was coming from. I mean, the movie pretty much defines that he was not allucinating about the future - it gets satisfactorily proven by many unrelated things - so my first idea was that he really was some joker from the future.
But that theory does not hold water, as it's impossible to imagine that in an apocaliptic future someone would be able to build a time machine (or use the one of the scientists) just to mess arond with the time traveler's head.
My second idea was that the fact that Cole was not making up the whole time travel thing does not necesserily prevents him from being crazy, and maybe that voice was how his looney head was reacting to that weird situation... but than I remembered that he meets that old guy in 1990 together with the psychiatrist Catherine Reilly (Medelaine Stowe), and in fact that she met the old guy alone when she is looking for Cole, after realizing that he might be right about the deadly virus. So, the theory of those voices being only in his head is pretty much down too.
My last attempt was to try to imagine that the guy was some sort of agent from the scientists trying to somehow direct Cole's decisions with coded information... But first of all, they didn't have any as looking for information was exactly the reason why they send him to the past. Also, he does not give any useful advice - and in fact the only idea he gives, about how the tracking device is on the teeth - proves to be wrong as José, working for the scientists, effotlessly finds Cole in the airport in the end of the movie. Besides, his spreading of doubt and confusion was the complete opposite of the scientist's demands from the time travellers.
So, none of the ideas I had could explain the voices Cole heard. I am really out of any other.
Do you guys have, by any chance, realized what that old wacko was all about?
Regards
.
Nonetheless, what I want here is to ask a specific question here, so first I give the very famous...
SPOILER ALERT
...for those who didn't see and/or don't want to know.
Do you remember that when James Cole (Bruce Willis' caracther) tries to escape from the mental institution and gets captured, sedated and restrained in a small room, he starts to hear a weird voice of an old man teasing him, right before he vanishes? And that he also does that when he is back in the hospital in the future?
I really never got where that voice was coming from. I mean, the movie pretty much defines that he was not allucinating about the future - it gets satisfactorily proven by many unrelated things - so my first idea was that he really was some joker from the future.
But that theory does not hold water, as it's impossible to imagine that in an apocaliptic future someone would be able to build a time machine (or use the one of the scientists) just to mess arond with the time traveler's head.
My second idea was that the fact that Cole was not making up the whole time travel thing does not necesserily prevents him from being crazy, and maybe that voice was how his looney head was reacting to that weird situation... but than I remembered that he meets that old guy in 1990 together with the psychiatrist Catherine Reilly (Medelaine Stowe), and in fact that she met the old guy alone when she is looking for Cole, after realizing that he might be right about the deadly virus. So, the theory of those voices being only in his head is pretty much down too.
My last attempt was to try to imagine that the guy was some sort of agent from the scientists trying to somehow direct Cole's decisions with coded information... But first of all, they didn't have any as looking for information was exactly the reason why they send him to the past. Also, he does not give any useful advice - and in fact the only idea he gives, about how the tracking device is on the teeth - proves to be wrong as José, working for the scientists, effotlessly finds Cole in the airport in the end of the movie. Besides, his spreading of doubt and confusion was the complete opposite of the scientist's demands from the time travellers.
So, none of the ideas I had could explain the voices Cole heard. I am really out of any other.
Do you guys have, by any chance, realized what that old wacko was all about?
Regards
.
