Movie: Source Code
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Source Code is an action thriller centered on a decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers that he is part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago bound commuter train. In an assignment like no other he has ever known he learns he is part of a secret government experimant called The Source Code. The source code is a program that enables him to relive the last 8 minutes of a passengers life on that train. He can relive those 8 minutes over and over again gathering clues each time until he can solve the mystery of what happened and who is to blame. But time is of the essence when a second more deadly bomb is set to go off in Chicago he must use those 8 minutes to find the Bomb and the Bomber as quickly as he can.
While reliving those 8 minutes over and over again Captain Stevens interacts with all those aboard the train he thinks might be able to help him while pretending to be the teacher whose body he has possessed. He discovers that in reality he died while on a mission in Afghanistan and has been kept “alive” by the government as a new tool in the fight against terror. After solving the mystery and capturing the bomber he begs for a final 8 minutes to save the passengers on the train at least in the parallel universe he is in. He uses those last 8 minutes to say good bye to his father as best he can and fall in love with the girl across the aisle. In order to end the cycle his host body must die. Ultimately he gets a second chance to live after his real life is allowed to end leaving him stuck in a parallel time in someone else’s body.
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