Source Code
In fact, surprisingly enough we do have a very nice movie theater close to university. It’s a modern one with good equipment and very comfortable seats, I loved it. They also have student tickets (9$ in comparison to the 12$), which is very pleasant. I have a feeling that almost everybody who goes here is a student though.
“Source Code” is one of those action movies with grand explosions and nice effects which work best in a cinema. I wonder if I would have enjoyed it as much outside of this environment – it’s just like how I am glad to have seen “Inception” in an IMAX. Apart from that, there is not too much to say about the film. I thought it worked very well and found it to be very suspenseful. Oh God, I was on the verge of crying when he called his father! That was so cute and touching…
But what can I say. First of all, the technobabble hurt my ears. I went all RAWWWRRRR when they said “quantum physics” for the third time! Ugh. Second, the end sucks. Or more like: The happy end is destroying the mood of something that could have been the perfect ending of the story… Screw you, Hollywood. I am aware that there was a foreboding (oh God, Anish Kapoor’s bean was so disturbingly prominent in the film?) about the end, but I didn’t like it. Third, the romance between the main characters were annoying as hell. I didn’t like the actress of Christina (though she wasn’t necessarily bad, just nothing special) and the development of that love story was just action-film-like shallow. And finally, how should I put it, the main character is a soldier who, uh, is being asked to “serve his country”. There is something about this conception of soldiers that irked me.
Apart from that, yes, the film was extremely enjoyable to watch. Suspenseful, a little funny at times and great because Jake Gyllenhaal is a great actor. He saves the film, making it believable and gripping. And he is so strangely manly in the movie? I also like Vera Farmiga now. While she annoyed me in “The Departed” (somehow, you’d expect an actress to be better looking in this role, or at least more sexy), I must admit that I have a thing for her now. There is something strangely beautiful in her eyes and in her face that fascinates me about her. I don’t really know what it is! Even so, if I was a man I would probably love the look she puts on when she acts worried, haha.
In essence, I don’t think the film is all that ground-breaking, but I liked seeing it. “Groundhog Day” or even “Butterfly Effect” are probably better time loop/time travel movies to watch and I definitely have to watch the former, but even if I don’t find “Source Code” all that smart as some critics do, I think it’s a well-directed, well-acted and basically an all-round-well film.