Twelve Monkeys hooks you up quickly. This happens because of the time traveling, post-apocalyptic setting, civilization killer plague, radical group defending animals, crazy people that are actually right and all of those characteristics which make a movie great. The time traveling characteristic is very complex, but amazingly understandable and interesting. First, we need to explain what exactly a paradox is. A paradox is a fact or an idea that may sound easy to understand at once but then leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion. Paradoxes may be confusing but help us to critical think. Twelve Monkeys has a very confusing paradox. James Cole, a post-apocalyptic plague survivor which is in a futuristic jail, is
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Then failing in the attempt of saving mankind and dying in front of him as a child and making a never ending cycle in which the kid grew and travelled through time then died in front of another young James Cole. It is confusing to know which was the first James Cole that travelled through time and wanted to save mankind because the other James Coles that come after, are just repeating the first James Cole´s actions. In my opinion, James Cole was in a never ending cycle. In this cycle, the time is a very complex fact. The future and past become the present and the present becomes the past and the future at the same time. With time traveling logic changes, time traveling by itself is a paradox. It all starts with the first James Cole that lived this experience, it may be the one in the movie or not. This particular James Cole, “Condemned” the other coming James Coles with his actions because they will live the same events. James Cole failed to save humanity, but if he succeeded, the post-apocalyptic James Cole would have never existed, so it’s self-contradictory. Cole is a victim in the movie, this is because he is used and mentally abused by the effects of time traveling. James´journey starts when he was a kid. He sees his own death, and because of it,
Then failing in the attempt of saving mankind and dying in front of him as a child and making a never ending cycle in which the kid grew and travelled through time then died in front of another young James Cole. It is confusing to know which was the first James Cole that travelled through time and wanted to save mankind because the other James Coles that come after, are just repeating the first James Cole´s actions. In my opinion, James Cole was in a never ending cycle. In this cycle, the time is a very complex fact. The future and past become the present and the present becomes the past and the future at the same time. With time traveling logic changes, time traveling by itself is a paradox. It all starts with the first James Cole that lived this experience, it may be the one in the movie or not. This particular James Cole, “Condemned” the other coming James Coles with his actions because they will live the same events. James Cole failed to save humanity, but if he succeeded, the post-apocalyptic James Cole would have never existed, so it’s self-contradictory. Cole is a victim in the movie, this is because he is used and mentally abused by the effects of time traveling. James´journey starts when he was a kid. He sees his own death, and because of it,