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posted by LaminatorX on Friday January 09 2015, @12:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-tomorrow's-zombies dept.

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?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Friday January 09 2015, @04:07PM

    by Arik (4543) on Friday January 09 2015, @04:07PM (#133219) Journal
    Because of the Heinlein connection, presumably.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @04:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @04:21PM (#133224)

    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

      by pnkwarhall (4558) on Friday January 09 2015, @11:46PM (#133327)

      It even mentions a Philip K Dick story! What more could you want?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 10 2015, @04:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 10 2015, @04:31AM (#133365)

      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.