Predestination (2015)
Time-traveler who's getting a little punch-drunk from all of his jumps has one important mission to finish in order to stop the "fizzle bomber" from carrying out a big loss-of-life event. He travels back to the '70s as a bartender and listens to the hard-luck story of one of the customers.
Gary and I were able to figure out what was going on fairly early, which didn't wreck the story, exactly. It just exposed sooner, rather than later, that it wasn't that great of or original a story. It's one of those ideas that should've dissipated once the high wore off for the originator -- it kind of falls apart if you look too closely.
Also, one of the main plot points is an intersex person who is told she MUST live as a man because she's got both sets of reproductive organs and a hysterectomy was necessary. This is patently ridiculous. You don't cease being a woman because your uterus is gone -- in what universe does a forced sex change make ANY sense? Certainly not in the USA of the 1960s.
C
Gary and I were able to figure out what was going on fairly early, which didn't wreck the story, exactly. It just exposed sooner, rather than later, that it wasn't that great of or original a story. It's one of those ideas that should've dissipated once the high wore off for the originator -- it kind of falls apart if you look too closely.
Also, one of the main plot points is an intersex person who is told she MUST live as a man because she's got both sets of reproductive organs and a hysterectomy was necessary. This is patently ridiculous. You don't cease being a woman because your uterus is gone -- in what universe does a forced sex change make ANY sense? Certainly not in the USA of the 1960s.
C
posted by MeMe | 7:33 PM
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