SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW BY AJAYEOBA MAYOKUN.

The movie Source Code is a scientific thriller that was released on the 1^st of April, 2011 and was directed in the United States of America by Duncan Jones and has Ben Ripley as its script writer. It is a 93 minutes movie having its main stars as Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga.

Source Code is creative thriller that comes billed as science fiction; the "science" in this case is used to prop up an appealing story of a man who tries to change the past.

At its center is Colter Stevens, played by Jake (Gyllenhaal), a US army helicopter pilot who has crashed in Afghanistan. When he comes through, he finds himself in civilian clothes aboard a crowded commuter train arriving slightly late into Chicago on a glorious summer morning. He appears to be in someone else's body: that of a suburban teacher. Opposite him sits Christina (Michelle Monaghan) who behaves as if a brief nap has merely interrupted their highly flirtatious conversation, but she is then increasingly alarmed as Colter, wild-eyed and panicky, demands to know what is happening and what is going on.

After eight minutes, Colter gains consciousness to find himself (as himself) in a secret Army lab, talking to a scientist named Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga). He gradually understands that the commuter train was destroyed by a terrorist bomb, and that the brain of one of the victims was harvested for memories of the last eight minutes before the explosion. That's a first cousin to the old theory that “a killer's image remains imprinted on the victim's retinas”

Goodwin and her Army intelligence team believe that by rerunning those eight minutes, they can discover the identity of the terrorist and prevent a larger explosion that could destroy Chicago.

Now comes the human touch; As he returns again and again to those fateful eight minutes, Colter finds that he can remember his previous visits, even though for Christina and others on the train, they are of course happening for the first time, as well he might, as the conscious occupant of this borrowed body, he apparently possesses free will and need not duplicate exactly what the original memory donor did.

This involves the possibility that he could relive the memories of a man's final eight minutes and act in such a way as to affect the outcome. If the man were to survive — whose memories would he have, his own or his visitor's? Don't go there. The Army's no doubt brilliant Dr. Rutledge (Jeffrey Wright) starts out to account for the experiment, but abandon his explanation, which is our loss Colter’s challenge increase in complexity. The city grows ever closer to destruction. Christina becomes more poignant. The scientists grow more desperate.

This movie is a must watch for every science student, science and technology reporter and every producer/director in Nigeria, because this movie is a great Science fiction movie that teaches you how to create and make use of inventions to help your country, this movie is an eye opener for Nigerian science students which will enable them to invent a machine/equipment that will boost our nation’s development; where we have the cases of the faceless Boko Haram sect, in relation to this movie, our students can produce machines to track down these faceless mob.

Nigerian film directors/producers/scriptwriters should also write and produce more science- fiction movies which are intellectually inclined, and would promote or boost Nigeria’s image to the global world; not only to the global world, but also if inventions as such can be imbibed in our country Nigeria, then there would be cases of people having the intention and encouragement to become science and technology journalists in the country. 

This movie will help science and technology reporters know how to report similar inventions like the one portrayed in the movie. On a scale of 1-10, I rate this movie 8, four gold stars and 1 thumb up!!! Also as this ratings are, if science and technology would be encouraged in the country, other nations would rate Nigeria same.