The time travel paradox or simply temporal paradox is a self contradictory argument in which time and space contradict each other and challenge destiny. A paradox is a self-contradicting idea that is logically unacceptable because there is no logic explanation to prove it. There are two types of temporal paradoxes: the causal loop and the grandfather paradox; each of them have the same basis, but have subtle differences. The movie “12 Monkeys” is built around a causal loop that enters in the subgenera of a self-fulfilling prophecy. This specific genre of the time travel paradox is based on the fact that an event in the future affect events of the past that will later on affect the future making an inconsistent logic of unexplainable relation of time and space. Throughout this essay, diverse examples and explanations about this paradox will be mention always based on the “12 Monkeys”.
The movie starts by picturing a memory that the main character has about an assassination in an airport, it will be later be revealed that he was the child that was looking at the event. This memory brings to scene the time travel paradox which will later on mark the plot. The main character is later send to the past to try to avoid the …show more content…
The storyline continues and a number of event happen. Between some confusions and misunderstanding that would mark a typical Shakespearean novel, the psychiatrist: Kathryn Railly calls the place where Cole had told her that the message in the future that incriminated the army of the twelve monkeys had come from and she tells that place that said army was the responsible. The paradox starts making itself evident in that exact moment. The call made by Railly ended up being the call that Cole heard in the future, so he could only hear the call because she called because he had told her about the message in the first
The movie starts by picturing a memory that the main character has about an assassination in an airport, it will be later be revealed that he was the child that was looking at the event. This memory brings to scene the time travel paradox which will later on mark the plot. The main character is later send to the past to try to avoid the …show more content…
The storyline continues and a number of event happen. Between some confusions and misunderstanding that would mark a typical Shakespearean novel, the psychiatrist: Kathryn Railly calls the place where Cole had told her that the message in the future that incriminated the army of the twelve monkeys had come from and she tells that place that said army was the responsible. The paradox starts making itself evident in that exact moment. The call made by Railly ended up being the call that Cole heard in the future, so he could only hear the call because she called because he had told her about the message in the first