Source Code: Explained
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Instead of going about my traditional review style I decided to focus on the science behind the fiction of the movie Source Code. For face value, the movie is quite fun to watch, Jake Gyllenhaal has a belivable performance and gets rid of the silly hair he had in last year’s Prince of Persia. I obviously have limited factual scientific knowledge but I’ll go ahead and throw some logic your way. So I’ll skip the narrative of the movie and go into detailed spoilers leading to my conclusions of the movie.
As the story unfolds we are lead to believe that the Source Code is a sort of simulation program that allows the subject to relieve the last 8 minutes of a deceased person. We are told that as someone dies they leave a sort of “echo” that can be tapped into. A kind of sample of their existence of some sort.
