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movie review - Predestination

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a movie about a person involved by an agency in fighting certain crimes in the past. Armed with a time travel device, he travels to the past to stop things like bombings. We catch up with him as he's horribly burned in the process of stopping one such bombing - this is playing out as the credits end. He is stitched back together in hospital and returns to the past once more to try to figure out what happened. There, things take a very, very unanticipated turn and we wind up in a situation that I can't do justice because the situation can't be explained in part without the whole unfolding.

I would caution anyone considering a job in temporal police work to NOT take the job. Do NOT go back in time to try to fix anything, paradoxes are no joke.

Anyway, it's a troubling story and it unfolds with a gritty realism that help us retain our sanity as things rapidly seem to be heading to the unthinkable. This was a damn impressive story.

Strongly recommended.