Film: Source Code Trailer

A trailer for this interesting film, directed by the hugely talented Duncan Jones (whose debut, Moon, was utterly brilliant, but a very different project), has me torn. On one hand it looks like an interesting concept, the idea of having a short amount of time, over and over again, to try and figure out who is at fault for a terrorist attack. Throw in a pretty girl (which they have) and some big explosions (which, well, obviously they have) and you've got yourself a blockbuster.



On the other hand, there are already glaring questions to be answered. Why, for instance, if our hero can repeatedly return to the same train, does he not just search each passenger on the train with each visit, gradually ruling everybody out until the guilty person is found.

And how, if every time he goes back the pretty girl doesn't know him, is he going to make her understand, or even believe, in just eight minutes, that he is part of this confusing military experiment. Because they have to fall in love, don't they? And she can't fall in love with the guy he's pretending to be. That's not how it works. She has to fall in love with the Jake, not the weird preppy-looking guy that Jake's been put into. So either he's going to prove to her VERY quickly that he's not who she thinks. Or she's just going to believe his weirdo sci-fi ramblings like a ditsy idiot. I'm going for the latter.