Shannon Corcoran Blog 2 Source Code

The film Source Code seems like Groundhog Day mixed with The Matrix. The main character Colter finds himself in a chamber one which he is alone. He keeps on going back to the same eight minutes in which a bomb explodes. His job is to find the bomber and the bomb. Each time he goes back he learns something new from the first eight minutes. Even though he is keeps on going back to the present time, he is trapped in profane time. He learns that the eight minutes he is given are sacred time to find the bomber.
The profane time is the same eight minutes on the train. Even though he tries to save other people on the train, he fails each time resulting in his “death” or termination of the eight minutes and the same outcome occurs. The people on the train die. It was not until when he finds out who the bomber is; he wants to try to act as God and save the other people on the train for good. The way he tries to act like a god is to stop the bomb on the train from going off. It became his mission to save the other people on the train.