PREDESTINATION (2014) - ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE EXPLANATION

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Predestination is one of my favourite time traveling movies, I think the story and the time loops are very clever and I remember being blown away by the originality of the tale the first time I watched the film.

In this video I lay out the timeline of the movie in as linear a fashion as possible and I analyse the more intriguing aspects of the film.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THE VIDEO:
What is the Temporal Bureau in Predestination? - 0:36
The effects of time travel? - 1:01
Who are Jane, John, the Barkeep and the Fizzle bomber? - 1:29
The timeline of predestination - 3:12
Predestination first scene explained - 9:19
Mr Robertson’s motivations in Predestination | Who is Mr Robertson in Predestination? - 10:28
Who are the other agents in Predestination? - 11:26

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[halfmoontech]

This movie is the definition of 'Paradox'.
It's a closed loop, no beginning no end.
10/10

[mistermxyzptlk]

When you realize that after the facial operation he said "my mother wouldn't recognize me" but she didn't recognize him anyway

[leelee]

I just watched this movie for the first time and whilst reading the comments I read a comment left by myself 4 years ago about the first time I watched this movie ! I’m freaking out

[fuzzypurp]

Wanna hear a joke? "Guy walks into a bar..." Whoever wrote this is brilliant!!

[rockyseverino]

There's a pretty cool line of dialogue when John is explaining to to the barkeep (future John) that the description of the man who stole her baby was a man with face "like yours or mine, "

Well that was more accurate than we knew at the time lol

[alaahershey]

One of the best movies ever made about time travel, and the acting was Iconic.

[frodobaggins]

I just watched this again and it was as thrilling as ever. The sublte hints when Barkeep is singing "I'm my own grandpa" are a nice touch. Thanks for the anlaysis.

[tbko]

**EXPLAINED** (super easy to understand)
*1* John burns his face disarming a bomb.
*2* The Agent helps John reach his time machine
*3* John goes in the future, to a hospital where he is recovering from a facial reconstruction.
*4* After recovering he goes back in time (with his new face) as a bartender and meets *John.
*5* John tells him his life story and how he used to be Jane.
*6* John and The Agent(bartender) go back in time to kill the man that left Jane.
*7* John realises that he is the man that left Jane pregnant and than dumped her.
*8* The Agent convinces John to leave Jane(again) and to take up his job as an Agent as He(the agent/bartender) is gonna retire.
*9* John leaves Jane.
*10* Jane gives birth.
*11* The Agent/Bartender steals the baby and sends it back(18 years earlier) in an orphanage.
*12* The Agent retires.
*13* His machine doesn't decommission itself as planned and can still be used. He uses it
*14* He encounters the fizzle bomber who is the Agent's future self suffering from psychosis from excessive time travel.
*15* The fizzle bomber tries to convince the agent that the only way to end the cycle is for the agent to spare the bomber's life, unlike the Fizzle Bomber did in his past as the agent.
*16* The Agent denies he'll ever become the fizzle bomber and kills him.
*17* The Agent than helps burnt John reach his time machine.
*The cycle repeats itself as the agent now will become the fizzle bomber, John will become the Agent, Jane will become John and the baby will become Jane.*

[annenyashagumbie]

So basically, he fell in love with herself and gave birth to herself and he took herself back in time so she can grow up and meet himself after being brought back in time by himself to take her own viginity, Simple🙄

[TSelNiNO]

And to think this whole thing could have been avoided if Jane just swallowed himself.. .

[jb]

I've watched this movie 3 times and I find something new about it every time. So underated no doubt will probably watch it a fourth time. My theory I think Robertson knows John is the fizzle bomber.

[kyalvidigi]

The greatest mystery in this Movie is Mr. Robertson, like what the hell, he doesn't age and stuck in the loop with him/her.

[RaijinWolf]

I still can't get over the idea that John somehow managed to fall in love with his past self while being aware of that fact, as well as the fact that he's going to abandon his past self and permanently scar her emotionally.

You're essentially falling in love with a memory of yourself, whilst knowing that you're going to end up screwing them over.

The time travel is good, but the fact it all hinges on John very weirdly falling in love with his past self always takes me out of the movie.

[OgLockpin]

So the question is, when did this character's existence come into being? Chicken or the egg with a time travel twist. Love time paradoxes. 💙

[wplg]

The most thought provocative film I've ever seen, on the grandfather's paradox!
Predestination is an extraordinary look at "Cause and effect" of time travel in a screenplay.

This film beautifully written opens the possibility our reality is already written.

[MrALenCar]

One of the best movies I have ever scene better than the endgame time travel. This movies confuses us with multiple time travels. Now I am off to see Donnie Darko and Primer.

[TimeandMonotony]

Great video! It took me three watches to fully understand this movie, but once I finally did, it became my favorite time travel movie ever!
One thing I will add to your excellent explanation is that I think the various versions of Jane/John's feelings for each other also had a lot to do with why s/he became the Fizzle Bomber. Jane's experience of growing up unloved and unwanted left her open to falling in love with the first guy who came along who was nice to her, then her experience of having her heart broken and baby kidnapped turned him into a cynic who believes "this world deserves the shitstorm that it gets, " till he found purpose for awhile in his work (and, I believe, in the knowledge that he would one day see his younger selves again), but then the combination of finding out that he was to become the Fizzle Bomber and that he wouldn't see his younger selves again, along with the time travel-induced psychosis, is what drove him over the edge.

Notice that the first thing the FB says to the Barkeep is "you look good. *I've missed you*, " and the last line of the movie (the Barkeep's message to John) is "the only thing I know for sure is that you are the best thing that's ever happened to me. *I miss you dreadfully*."

So I think it wasn't *just* the time travel that drove him insane. All the trauma he'd suffered over his/her life, plus being separated from the person(s) he loved (his younger selves) added to the mental instability that is a side-effect of time travel. I even think it's possible that one of the FB's motives, aside from his stated ones, is that he knew John would pursue him in order to stop him, and that he would see him again. Maybe he hoped that he'd be able to talk the Barkeep out of killing him this time and they could be together, or maybe he knew he wouldn't be able to, but it would be worth it to see him one more time before he died. I dunno, just my theory!
But anyway, great video for a great movie!
Oh, and to all the people complaining that Jane/John has no origin: that's the point. It's called a bootstrap paradox, and is fairly common in time travel stories. The object, information or, in this case, person, has no beginning or end point: it's a closed circle, hence all the discussion in the movie about the chicken or the egg and the snake eating its own tail (Ouroboros.)

[VeracityLH]

I love the idea that all the time agents are the same person at different points in the ultimate time loop.

[kdizzle]

How can someone come up with something like this in there head it’s crazy

[VanessaKlinger]

In my opinion, this is the best time travel movie ever. It explains how we all can be the same person. I was hoping to see how he wound up being Robertson... The best!