Time travel trouble in an otherwise good film
This movie was cool, but it committed an error that beset Minority Report and is in fact a common hitch in time travel (henceforth TT) stories, namely causality and the fact that even in TT, something has to happen after the action that gave rise to it. One can't go back to the beginning if it hasn't occurred at least once. Unless interdimensional issues are seeded into the script, one traditionally hops back and forth only in a single continuum and because of that the rules of natural order will still apply. The problem this movie and MR had was that they violated this and gave both characters an effect before there was a cause, the effect thereby being the cause.An event cannot, even in the most futuristic and imaginative sci-fi setting, cause itself, as it does in the two under discussion. Here, Kris's character gives Adrien's information only because Adrien gave it to him first, years ago. That itself was only because...get this...Kris told him! In other words, Kris tells Adrien a list of patients’ names in the future. This is only because in the past, Adrien rattled them off after a stay in the jacket. Because it's the past, it's the first Kris has heard of it. Now, logically, how can this be? Where did it start? If Adrien, in the past, tells Kris things that Kris told him only because Adrien said that Kris told him, we find ourselves in a self-devouring loop with no beginning and no end. Essentially, each character knew the information because the other informed him. TT is all well and good, but it would be pure if one would address rather than sidestep such problems.Despite this, it’s a very good movie with an ending that lets a little hope leak into the bleak narrative, letting you leave on a good note. ;)