The Source Code was an entertaining, brainless movie and then it became a great premise for a horror film and then it ended. At the point Stevens finds the bomber and the cavalry swoops in to stop him, I thought "That was kind of a short movie", but it just kept going and the implications of the ending were terrifying. Let's review the last fifteen minutes of The Source Code to find all its accidental horror.
After Stevens saves Chicago, he asks to go back in a save the train before Goodwin commits euthanasia. My understanding of the premise up to that point was that Stevens wasn't actually traveling through time and taking over the mind of Random Guy, he was in a computer simulation that played out probable futures based on what he made Random Guy do. They had tried to explain it differently, but their explanation was so stupid that I substituted my own. So when he wanted to go back in, I thought "I guess he wants one more happy memory before he dies and we get to end on a controversial message." As it turned out, both my explanation and theirs was wrong and he was traveling through time and taking over Random Guy's mind.
So he manages to save the train. Then the horror starts when Prize Girl goes on a date with Random Guy and Random Guy is still Jake Gyllenhaal. Again, I thought this is like the ending of Taxi Driver, a fantasy taking place as his brain dies where Stevens gets the girl of the other guy's dreams, but then they cut back to Goodwin and confirm that all of that actually happened and that Stevens is still alive and his mind is still in his physical body. Good for Chicago, great for the other passengers on the train, unbelievable horror for Stevens, Random Guy and Prize Girl.
Stevens- His fate is probably the worst of the bunch as he is being kept alive against his will unable to move or do anything on his own. He will however experience his own death thousands of times over the next 50 to 60 years. It's no wonder why he's become a psychopath who has found a way to copy himself into the mind of random people.
Random Guy- What happened to Random Guy? Really, the best case scenario for him is that he's dead, because it's hard to imagine the nightmare of being trapped in your own body while some Goa'uld uses you like a giant meat puppet.
Prize Girl- The nice Random Guy she's been chatting with on the train has just literally become another person. The kind of person who apparently has no qualms about taking control of the body and life of a random stranger. I'm sure this relationship will turn out well.
Does anyone want to by my script for a thriller about a disabled veteran driven mad by government scientists who wants to make every man in world his mind slave to rape and kill their girlfriends?
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