Predestination (2015) - Smarter Than Time And Space.

★★★★★

Here’s a classic, in a time-travel genre, maybe not of all time, but definitely of the year. Feeling like ‘Looper’ is tricky enough, you’ll be real mad trying to wrap your head around the plot of ‘Predestination’, that’s of paradoxes making one rather confused who’s who, what’s what, and which must logically come first. It seems so mesmerizing and flawless however, if you flow with it instead of fighting it and trying to be smart. Plus a really impressive performance by Sarah Snook, for which I think she deserves an Academy Award or stuff, ‘Predestination’ is pretty much a perfect film to stun and inspire if you’ve ever been fed up with life itself.

The biggest problem you may have with the film is the head-scratching timeline and characters involved. I’m not to break it down here. I’ll have to spoil the plot if I do. To better enjoy it, you gotta break away from logical thinking of time and space that’s, as a matter of fact, nothing but a delusion. But we’re trapped in ‘the past, present and future’. We think it’s real. “A meets B to generate C” is all right, but if further told that “A won’t be made possible without C” and “B not without A”, we’ll think it’s absolutely nonsense because that’s logically impossible. ‘Predestination’ could appear to be quite an inspiration or complete bullshit. It all depends how real the world looks to you, or say, how deep you’re in that trap!

The jaw-dropping plot aside, characters are another trick on display in the film. They keep playing with our rusted mind until the final kick to blow it for sure. Repeatedly said that ‘you know who she is, and you understand who you are, and now maybe you're ready to understand who I am.’ We keep labeling things till we’re lost in them. We keep doing yesterday what should be done tomorrow. If we think about it… if we really do, we’ll realize that we can never get to understand ourselves just as we can never get to understand others and the world we’re in.