Sara Stewart reports at the NY Post that the new sci-fi movie "Predestination," opening January 9, is "loopier than Speilberg's [Minority Report]; its plot twists and turns “like a snake eating its tail,” one character remarks, until you’re not sure whether its developments are even plausible in a fictional universe."
Based on Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction classic "All You Zombies," and first published in 1959 - the story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel further developing themes explored by Heinlein in a previous work, "By His Bootstraps", published some 18 years earlier. The plot concerns the intersection of Ethan Hawke’s time-traveling assassin and an androgynous young writer who becomes a key player in the quest by Hawke (he’s only billed as The Barkeep) to catch a New York-based serial bomber.
The story is the movie's long set-up, a tale of a bullied childhood told by one who was bullied, a romantic rendezvous that may or may not happen, a single mother exploited by science and the debris, scattered through time, of every wound, ordeal and heartbreak that a single life has to endure writes Roger Moore. "Will "The Bartender" find his prey and prevent a tragedy? Will he be able to pull the trigger, one last time? Will "The Unmarried Mother" improve her lot or change her destiny?"
(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Friday January 09 2015, @04:07PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @04:21PM
Don't you get it? Geek-interest entertainment is off-topic, dammit!!!! We can only have stories that I like!
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Friday January 09 2015, @11:46PM
It even mentions a Philip K Dick story! What more could you want?
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 10 2015, @04:31AM
I wasn't saying it couldn't be here, I was asking if there was more to it than an ad and apparently there is.