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Elisha 2021-12-12 08:01:08
If you show someone their future, they have no future, if you take away the mystery, you take away...
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Philip 2021-12-12 08:01:08
Stories about memories
After thinking and thinking about it, I decided to have a chat together, just think of me as a word, but suddenly I feel that although it does not seem to have a lot in common in the film, there is actually one word that runs through all the time, and that is memory. memory, I
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Annamae 2022-03-22 09:01:52
Uma's eyes are so charming
Films adapted from Dick's novels usually give people a paradoxical feeling. What he wants to express is neither a lament about fate nor a pessimism about human nature, but how human beings guide their own future. In his works, we don't see big heroes, and we can't find big villains. The...
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[Michael and Rachel have entered the inner sanctum, where the computer is which, presumably, Michael designed or reverse-engineered]
Michael Jennings: Let's take a look at the future before we destroy this thing.
[Jennings looks intense, then smiles as he discovers that he innately knows how to place his fingers and palms on the devices. But his smile turns to a frown as he discovers the same virus message that Brown has been receiving: ERROR - 41. He taps at some controls, then whispers:]
Michael Jennings: I bugged it! I rigged it, so Jimmy wouldn't use it against me.
Rachel Porter: Then you can fix it, right?
[He sighs and climbs down into the engineering section]
Michael Jennings: Where would I have planted that bug? Maybe I wanted the motherboards. Whoa! Whoa!
[He sees that Rachel has picked up a monkey wrench]
Michael Jennings: We won't be needing this, okay? You're dangerous with that thing!
[He seizes the monkey wrench and tosses it away onto the ground. Rachel's fingers curl against her bosom]
Rachel Porter: You must have given yourself something to help you find it.
Michael Jennings: I know. The only things left would be are the bullet and the, this.
Rachel Porter: The crossword?
Michael Jennings: Yeah!
Michael Jennings: [He studies it] Look at this: 12-Down.
[the clue is circled in ink and it reads: Used for changing connections in a circuit]
Michael Jennings: Maybe it's here.
Michael Jennings: [He counts circuits until he comes to the twelfth] Maybe it's a circuit diagram? I wouldn't have put it in the primary path. Twelve down.
[By placing the crossword puzzle over the grid, he discovers the bug; and he looks at Rachel with sly pride. They grin at each other. The virus warning turns into a pleasing display on the screen]
Michael Jennings: [In another room, Rethrick has been spying on them and has followed their progress]
Jimmy Rethrick: Take 'em.
Wolfe: Okay, Corridor 3, Level A: Jennings' lab.
[Rethrick arms his pistol and starts walking]
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Michael Jennings: Oh, my God, it's the future. The machine predicts a war - and we go to war to avert it. It predicts a plague - we herd all the sick together, create a plague. Whatever future this predicts, *we* make happen. We give over control of our lives completely. I did this... Seeing the future will destroy us.
Michael Jennings: If you show someone their future, they have no future. You take away the mystery, you take away hope.
Michael Jennings: I have to go back. I have to destroy that machine.
