So he's a prisoner who's an ancestor of an assassin and travels back in time in his ancestors body to kill someone or people?
shareHe's a prisoner who's descended from an Assassin, the prisoner is rescued by a International Corporation, who then uses a machine to relieve his ancestors memories, kinda like a playback.
It's much, MUCH, complicated than that though.
The biggest problem with society is that it refuses to believe that different opinions do exist.
Just play the game, then you'd understand
sharez1350205554
Just play the game, then you'd understand
It's a film about genetic memory and travelling back in time through virtual reality machine. The main problem it rises is the question: why the man is prone to violence - because it's something in our genetic code, or because of out own mind's imperfection?
That's all everyone who is unfamiliar with a game should know, and this is really enough. Everything else - in theaters next month.
Nolan, I love you forever!share
They (Marion Cotillard's character mainly) actually tell you what the movie is about. The guy's death is faked so they can put him in a machine to get information from his ancestor centuries back. They go into even more detail in the second trailer.
"Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth."
thanks, it still doesn't make much sense.
shareverycoolnin
thanks, it still doesn't make much sense.
So you expected them to spoil the entire plot in the trailers? Did you? Because it's the only way to tell something beyond "the actual basic objective of going back in time".
Nolan, I love you forever!share
gstards
So you expected them to spoil the entire plot in the trailers? Did you? Because it's the only way to tell something beyond "the actual basic objective of going back in time".
[deleted]
So he's a prisoner who's an ancestor of an assassin and travels back in time in his ancestors body to kill someone or people?
Let's break it down.
"So he's a prisoner"
Yes
"who's an ancestor of an assassin"
Descendant of an assassin, yes.
"and travels back in time in his ancestors body"
No, he uses a machine that allows him to relive his ancestor's memories, sort of like virtual reality.
He interacts with these memories actively, though: he actually feels like he has full control of his ancestor's body, and the program allows for him to deviate from the exact actions his ancestor took, as long as he "synchronizes" with the important memories. So to him, it feels like he is time traveling.
However, he is not actually time traveling (just reliving memories), and no changes he makes will affect the timeline.
"to kill someone or people"
No, the reason people use this machine is to discover important information their ancestor learned that may be useful to them. For example, in many of the games they are trying to find a lost historical artifact that the ancestor encountered. They then use this knowledge in the present day to try and locate the object.
Generally, to unlock this big memory the Animus user must synchronize with the memories of the events leading up to the big memory. Since the ancestor was an assassin, many of the memories will likely involve assassinating people.
"So it goes" -Slaughterhouse Fiveshare