Predestination
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Predestination |
| Original title | Predestination |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Michael Spierig , Peter Spierig |
| script | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig |
| production |
Paddy McDonald , Tim McGahan , Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig |
| music | Peter Spierig |
| camera | Ben Nott |
| cut | Matt Villa |
| occupation | |
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Predestination ( English for, predestination ') is an Australian science fiction - thriller from the year 2014 . The script was written by Michael and Peter Spierig , who also directed. The story is based on the short story Abduction into the Future (All You Zombies) by Robert A. Heinlein . It premiered on March 8, 2014 at the South-by-Southwest Film Festival. Predestination had its DVD premiere in German-speaking countries on February 5, 2015 .
action
The Temporal Bureau - a facility that prevents terrorist attacks and other crimes through time travel - sends an agent through the decades to prevent an attack by the terrorist "Fizzle Bomber". When the bomb is disarmed, however, he is disturbed by the "Fizzle Bomber" and does not manage to render the bomb harmless. In the explosion, the agent is injured and burned his face. He tries to get to the time machine, which is disguised as a violin case, but is too weak for that. A man steps up and pushes the suitcase over to the agent, who activates the time machine and disappears.
After years of recovery and a completely new look, the agent gets a new assignment. Disguised as a bartender, he meets a man at the bar, an author of stories for housewives magazines, who writes under the pseudonym “The single mother”. He claims that his life story is the best story the bartender will ever hear:
The man says he grew up as a girl named Jane. As a baby, Jane was dumped in front of an orphanage and grew up there. Even as a child she was different from the other children, incredibly intelligent and with a fascination for the universe and mathematics, but socially not able to deal with other people. Nobody adopted her. Instead, when she was a young woman, a man named Mr. Robertson appeared who posed as the head of a government space program and wanted Jane to be one of the first women to go into space. She was accepted as a possible candidate and had to undergo a series of physical and mental tests, all of which she passed with no problems; but she was kicked out of the program because of a fight with her competitors. She took a job as a domestic help and went to night school. One evening she collided with a man there, the first man in her life she cared about. The two became a couple and Jane was happy until the man suddenly disappeared without a trace. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Robertson reappeared and explained that he was not working for a space program, but was building a secret government agency and would like to hire Jane. Jane happily accepted, but soon realized that she was pregnant and therefore unable to attend.
She gave birth to a daughter in a hospital. There it was revealed to her that during the caesarean section it was noticed that Jane had both the internal anatomy of a woman and that of a man. Due to complications during the birth, the uterus had to be removed, but the doctors would be able to operate Jane into a man. Knowing that she would soon have to change her name, she named her daughter Jane. However, shortly afterwards the baby was abducted from the hospital. After nine months in hospital and three surgeries, Jane left the hospital as a man, called herself John from then on, and went to New York City. There he began writing stories for housewife magazines.
After John finishes his story, the agent asks him what he would do if he could face the man responsible for all of John's suffering. Would John kill him? John says yes. The agent claims that they will do just that. He leads John into the basement of the bar, shows him the time machine and tells him that the Temporal Bureau is the facility that Mr. Robertson wanted to and still wants to hire Jane for. The first assignment is to murder the man who did all of this to John. They jump with the time machine to the day Jane met the man at night school. The agent gives John a gun and orders him to kill the man. John goes to the school and waits for the man. Jane collides with him and John realizes that he is the man he fell in love with when he was Jane.
The agent observes the two of them and then tries by leaping further in time to carry out his old mission to stop the "Fizzle Bomber". He catches him activating the bomb and engages him in a fight, but the "Fizzle Bomber" overpowers him and knocks him down. When the agent can move again, he hears gunfire and an explosion. Shortly afterwards he sees himself with a burned face as he tries to get to the violin case, but fails. He steps out of the dark and pushes the time machine to his former self. Then he disappears himself and meets with Mr. Robertson in a hospital. This warns him that too many leaps in time can lead to the destruction of the psyche. The agent dismisses it and turns to his next assignment: kidnapping Jane as a baby. He takes the baby with him through time and places it in front of the orphanage. So it turns out that Jane is her own child: she is mother, father and child at the same time. Then the agent goes back to John and Jane. He is the reason that John disappears without a trace. John comes into the facility and is trained for his first real assignment.
The agent receives yet another assignment before he retires: to catch the "Fizzle Bomber" after all. He meets him in a laundromat, sees his face for the first time and recognizes himself. When asked why he is killing all the people, his later self claims that the attacks and the deaths of a few people caused major attacks and worse assassinations prevented. The agent remembers Mr. Robertson and his statement that too many time leaps can lead to problems. His later self says that exactly that was foreseeable, and at that moment the viewer learns in flashbacks that he is the agent John and the hunt for the "Fizzle Bomber" is the very first assignment in which the agent has a new one due to the explosion Got face.
John then says that he cannot let the "Fizzle Bomber" kill so many people and kills his future self.
Reviews
“ Predestination is one of those films that you really should watch a second time. [...] Conclusion: Gripping sci-fi thriller drama with borrowings from Inception and Looper , which offers excellent entertainment and is a topic of conversation long after the credits have ended. "
“One of the highlights of the Munich Film Festival 2014 was predestination . [...] For the Spierig Brothers an immense further development, a gigantic leap from the already good Daybreakers to this time travel gem, which with its attack on the logic of time paradoxes pulls the viewer right into the action. [...] Conclusion: surprising, smart, complex - a time travel film like nothing else has ever existed. "
Awards
| price | category | Award winners | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| AACTA Award | Best movie | Paddy McDonald | Nominated |
| Tim McGahan | Nominated | ||
| Michael and Peter Spierig | Nominated | ||
| Best director | Nominated | ||
| Best adapted script | Nominated | ||
| Best main actress | Sarah Snook | Won | |
| Best camera | Ben Nott | Won | |
| Best film editing | Matt Villa | Won | |
| Best film score | Peter Spierig | Nominated | |
| Best production design | Matthew Putland | Won | |
| Best costumes | Wendy Cork | Nominated | |
| Toronto After Dark Film Festival | Special award for the best sci-fi film | Won | |
| Special award for the best script | Michael and Peter Spierig | Won | |
| Audience Award for the best film | 2nd place | ||
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Predestination in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for predestination . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 069 V).
- ^ Lars-Christian Daniels: Critique of the Filmstarts.de editors. In: filmstarts.de. 2015, accessed March 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Peter Osteried: Who am I, and if so, how many? In: gamona.de. Webguidez Entertainment GmbH, February 4, 2015, accessed on March 4, 2015 .
- ^ AACTA Winners & Nominees - 4th AACTA Awards. In: AACTA Award . January 29, 2015, accessed March 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Award Winners - Announced for Toronto After Dark 2014! (No longer available online.) In: Toronto After Dark Film Festival. November 2, 2014, archived from the original on April 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
