Ho ho, wait a few more seconds, please. What if Source Code is an incredibly sophisticated program, which creates a virtual world constructed by the collective memory of all the passengers on the train during their last 8 minutes before the explosion combined with all data available on the internet today, like google-maps with streetview, phone-numbers, facebook information and so on and so on. Wouldn't such a virtual world create the illusion of entering the real world, 8 minutes before the fatal ending on the train?
Now, assume that such a computer configuration also includes a cunning brain connection to the human remains of a soldier who hardly survived in the Afghanistan war? Wouldn't such a system generate a mixture of personal memories of Colter Stevens, the soldier and the last minutes experience of the deceased passengers? Wouldn't such a soldier, with his brain still functioning, be able to find out the truth about his personal history? And, wouldn't such an intelligent sort of guy, use Source Code to orchestrate a cunning way to port his own 8 minutes after glow into such a magnificent machine as if he would live for ever in this virtual world, encapsulating the world of Beleaguered Castle?
...Credo quia absurdum...
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howard_w13
11 years ago
So you think that the "Source Code" is nothing more than simulation?
If that was the case; then the whole movie was nothing but a waste of time watching Colter's virtual daydream.
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The movie has a plot hole?!?
EVERY FRIGGIN' MOVIE HAS A FRIGGIN' PLOT HOLE!!!!! (¬_¬)
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Xav6101
11 years ago
So you think that the "Source Code" is nothing more than simulation?
Yes.
If that was the case; then the whole movie was nothing but a waste of time watching Colter's virtual daydream.
No! Since Colter Stevens' brain is connected to a highly sophisticated computer system he is able to use camcorders to 'see' his actual real life situation at Beleaguered Castle. Notice that his 'capsule' increases in size, facilitating him more an more space each time he returns from the train-world. This represents his growing awareness about his current situation. At the end the boundaries of this 'capsule/pod' are vanished completely as he can observe himself lying in that 'chamber'. Sure, it's absurd, to realize Colter Stevens' mind persists within "Source Code" and watches his other self, the organic one made of flesh and blood, being dead.
...Credo quia absurdum...
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ErlandGadde
10 years ago
Did Colter observe himself lying in the chamber? If so, I missed that...
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howard_w13
10 years ago
Did Colter observe himself lying in the chamber? If so, I missed that...
No; only the audience sees Colter (or rather what's left of him) lying in the chamber.
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The movie has a plot hole?!?
EVERY FRIGGIN' MOVIE HAS A FRIGGIN' PLOT HOLE!!!!! (¬_¬)
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daisystar
9 years ago
I would expect that most people's brains were blown up to pieces and it's impossible for a "collective memory" to emerge from that mess.
Shaun's brain was specifically chosen, probably because that his body was not as wrecked as others and still had a complete brain left. The part how they retrieved the last 8 minutes' memory from Shaun's brain was unexplained. I highly doubt it's possible to retrieve memory from a dead brain. I feel someone had to rush there at the very minute Shaun's body died but brain still alive. Just like how they keep Cotler's consciousness going - they need to plug in the devices when Cotler's brain was still alive to provide continuing power. That was still plausible as he died in a military hospital where people must have been hunting for source code candidates. But would that be the first thing jumping to a rescuer's mind during a train explosion chaos? To find a complete brain first?
Essentially it's a story about Cotler's consciousness entering Shaun's memory. If we are imagining that the interaction of different people's brain power could create a new world which becomes a "reality", then in future there would be no need for physical functionality and we can all be comfortably lying in coffins creating the worlds we want. This seems to imply a similar world to the "Matrix".
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