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"All you zombies" quote

posted 7 years ago by CyberRax
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Could someone please explain this to me, in the movie's context?

While I haven't read the original story I was under the impression that this was like a twist, that next to the whole fantastic timetravel stuff there apparently were also zombies in that reality. Now googling around it seems that there were no zombies after all, but the narrator might have actually referred to the reader. Or possibly the rest of human race. Which sort of makes sense, in the story. Not so much in the movie though. The scene where Hawke utters this line is the standard "this is how it really happened" montage, he's not breaking the 4th wall or anything, so why was this line included? He's not talking to the viewer, he's not dismissing any other characters who appeared (or is he? he claimed there were 10 more agents in the bureau, was the question perhaps directed at them?), so, yeah, any idea why this text was left in?

[–] GreyHunter 7 years ago

He's growing unstable and paranoid. He sounds exactly like a conspiracy theorist ranting about the masses being unaware of what's "really" happening. Like zombies, brain-dead and shuffling along.

[–] old-georgieboy 7 years ago

there's no bootstraps in By his bootstraps either

Balotelli...Aguerooooo! I swear you will never see anything like this ever again!

[–] aristideau 7 years ago

someone should make that into a movie too

[–] old-georgieboy 7 years ago

*beep* no, everyone would reckon it was ripping off Predestination.

Balotelli...Aguerooooo! I swear you will never see anything like this ever again!

[–] ichelwrite 7 years ago

When he says it in both the book and the movie... I understood it to mean that he knew how he got here, but how did the other versions of him get here. He participated in his own making, every step of the way, but just like us in the audience he wants to know the true origin story, but the answer he is given is the causal loop in the predestination paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop