12 Monkeys Essay, Research Paper
Bruce Willis plays James Cole, an inmate in the year 2035, almost the whole population of the earth has died from a virus released in 1997, the survivors have fled the surface of the earth, seeking refuge from the virus. Scientists in the movie?s present (2035) have traced the release of the virus to a radical animal rights groop called the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. Back in 2035 James Cole is ?volunteered? to go back to 1996 and obtain the virus in its pure form so a cure can be made in 2035. That was the idea anyway the scientists screw-up and send Cole to 1990. W hen he gets to 1990 he is dissorented and starts talking about how hes from the future and how the human race is going to be waped-out by a virus in 1996. Needless to say he gets himself thrown straight in the loony bin. This is where Cole meets Maniac Jeffery Goines (Brad Pitt), who?s Father is a virologist,(Dr. Gonies) and psychiatrist Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe). At first Goines seems like just another wacko but soon his involvement with the Army of the Twelve Monkeys becomes apparent. Railly, as a psychiatist, calmly dismisses Cole?s stories as dilusion, only to find that all the things that Cole had Foretold were comming true.Goines snags a key from one of the gaurds at the asylum and gives it to Cole so he can excape, but the heavly sedated Cole is caught and locked in a cell, at that time he is transported back to 2035 where he is greeted by very unhappy scientists. The scientists decide to give Cole another chance they promis to send him to the right time, Cole gets in the time machine and, Poof! Cole is naked in the french trenches of world war 1. Cole sees his cell-mate jose from 203
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