Source Code is not your run-of-the-mill movie, or is it? It has that characteristic ingredient of Indian films and food - masala, garbed well in true-Hollywood-style to make the end product look sauve and the audience feel intelligent. Like our own Amir Khan films do, some may argue.
A single-slider-on the film could look somewhat like this -
A. Star-Trekish theme of alternate reality, time-travel ('time-rearragement', ingenuous) revisited
B. Screen mostly inhabited by the yeh-mein-naheen-hoon & mein-kahaan-hoon hero
B. Doses of romance intermittently sprinkled
C. The usual-racial-suspects-red-herring-routine dropped along the way,
D. Will-the-misunderstood-beta-baap-equation-sort-out question dangled
E. Show a lab full of farily-ubiquitious techno-gadgetary (laptops, web-cams etc). add a dark-room, a time travel-dabba and a few military-attired-scientists-like-amigos and an amiga, to boot
F. Explode a bomb over & over again with different camera angles, camera shots and cameras, until..
G. .. you get into the final sequence and the inevitable twist..
For a sci-fi film that sends the hero ad-nauseum into the past , the makers just do not bother to let the viewers know 'how'. And when the poor protagonist asks exactly this to Scientist-de-chief, we are told that that is too complicated for the hero and ostensibly, the audience, to comprehend. And that, well, is that.
Nor do the makers really bother to explain why the project in the film and the film itself is named 'source code'. '8 minutes' may have been more apt, but less enigmatic..
Which is probably, why the film works, commerically, i mean.
A single-slider-on the film could look somewhat like this -
A. Star-Trekish theme of alternate reality, time-travel ('time-rearragement', ingenuous) revisited
B. Screen mostly inhabited by the yeh-mein-naheen-hoon & mein-kahaan-hoon hero
B. Doses of romance intermittently sprinkled
C. The usual-racial-suspects-red-herring-routine dropped along the way,
D. Will-the-misunderstood-beta-baap-equation-sort-out question dangled
E. Show a lab full of farily-ubiquitious techno-gadgetary (laptops, web-cams etc). add a dark-room, a time travel-dabba and a few military-attired-scientists-like-amigos and an amiga, to boot
F. Explode a bomb over & over again with different camera angles, camera shots and cameras, until..
G. .. you get into the final sequence and the inevitable twist..
For a sci-fi film that sends the hero ad-nauseum into the past , the makers just do not bother to let the viewers know 'how'. And when the poor protagonist asks exactly this to Scientist-de-chief, we are told that that is too complicated for the hero and ostensibly, the audience, to comprehend. And that, well, is that.
Nor do the makers really bother to explain why the project in the film and the film itself is named 'source code'. '8 minutes' may have been more apt, but less enigmatic..
Which is probably, why the film works, commerically, i mean.
