Predestination (film)

Predestination is a 2014 Australian science fiction mystery thriller film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film is based on the Robert A. Heinlein short story All You Zombies , and stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor.

The agent moves to 1970 New York. As a bartender, he starts a conversation with one of the customers. The customer, John, reveals he writes true confession articles under the pen name The Unmarried Mother. This pseudonym is explained by his biography. He grew up as Jane in an orphanage. As an adult she applied for Space Corp, but she was later disqualified because of a medical condition. It turns out that Space Corp worked for the Temporal Agency, and this agency now wanted to recruit her. However, Jane fell in love and got impregnated. The agency broke off contact, her lover disappeared, her baby was stolen. Furthermore, she found out that she was intersex and that giving birth had led to complications that required her to become a man. Since then, John has been living a bitter life as The Unmarried Mother.The agent suggests to take John back to the day that Jane met the man who had left her, so John can kill him. In return, John will take over the agents job for whatever duration he wishes. On the particular day, John bumps into Jane and they begin talking. John now realizes that he was Janes lover. The baby born from this self fertilization, suffering from a genital defect as a result, is taken by the agent to an orphanageyears earlier. Therefore, Jane, John and their baby are the same person, revealing a predestination paradox. The agent goes to 1975 New York as well, where he helps the burned man from the beginning of the film. ........

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