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Of all movies that you gotta watch more than once to really understand, what is your favorite and why? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] MissJinx 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Predestination. I did understand the first time but there are so many little details that I had to watch a second time, now knowing the plot, to absorb everything.

Ps: Please, don't ask what it is about. if someone explains you will lose a very cool crazy movie. just go warch it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm watching it right now. 20 minutes in.

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The columnist is talking about aging out of the orphanage and some guy is offering him a job as an astronaut.

I took your advice and know literally nothing about it other than it came out in 2014, and falls under the "Action, Drama, Sci-Fi" genres. Still, I wanna write this down now so I don't end up saying "I called it" after the fact and have no credibility, and if I call it wrong, we can all have a good laugh:

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I have the weirdest feeling that time travel is going to be involved at some point. And also something is just screaming "All You Zombies" adaptation at me.

spoiler

Might just be because he's trans.

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And telling a bartender his story. And there's some secret organization that's been teased... And the surgery in the beginning.

Okay I paused the movie because it was starting to bother me how much there was in common, looked up the story, and wow. I haven't read it in a decade or more; I didn't remember the character was given a title, but it's right there in the first sentence. Glad I'm not just crazy.

It was the weirdest feeling, to feel so strongly that there was a connection but not sure enough to trust the feeling. Like a compulsion, or an intrusive thought. Just a weirdly intense sensation.

One of my all time favorite short stories, I didn't know they made an adaptation. I am so excited now.

[–] MissJinx 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

loved the live feed lol Never heard of a short story but hope you liked the movie, I sure did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I found this pdf of it just now. I'd say worth the read just to see the differences between the source material and the movie. It's short, should only take 10 minutes.

I did like the movie! There were some things I was really pleased with how they handled, some things not as much, some things were even done better than the original. Truth be told, I'm not a fan of the author's wannabe Hemingway All-Dialogue-Little-Description style in the bar scene and flashbacks, so it's really cool to see the characters actually act and react and show emotion in the movie.

Thanks for introducing it the way you did, otherwise it wouldn't have caught my attention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for letting me know about the short story. Predestination is one of my favorite movies and I didn't know it was actually an adaptation! From Heinlein, no news