Predestination (2015)

From NetFlix:

Dispatched on a mission intended to alter the fabric of history, a temporal agent from a remote reality travels through time to prevent a criminal madman from carrying out a devastating attack on New York City.

Time travel films generally confuse me and this film is no exception. For 97 minutes I sat there glued to the screen without ever really understanding what was going on. At the very least it was a series of pleasant revelations as many pieces of seeming random information became related, even if I did not have a clue.

If it is any help, there is a Wikepedia article about the film that tries to explain the plot. In that article I learned that the film is based on the Robert A. Heinlein short story “‘—All You Zombies—'”.

Ethan Hawke never disappoints. Sarah Snook was new to me, even though her IMDB resume is quite impressive (for example, she played Andrea Cunningham in “Steve Jobs”).

If you watch this film and think you understand something, anything, about the plot, please feel free to fill me in.

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