Predestination (film)
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| Directed by | The Spierig Brothers |
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| Screenplay by | The Spierig Brothers |
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"'—All You Zombies—'" by Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Music by | Peter Spierig |
| Cinematography | Ben Nott |
| Edited by | Matt Villa |
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| Distributed by | Pinnacle Films Stage 6 Films |
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97 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4.3 million |
Predestination is a 2014 Australian science fiction thriller film written and directed by The Spierig Brothers, based on the 1959 short story "'—All You Zombies—'" by Robert A. Heinlein. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor.
The film begins in medias res as a time travelling agent is trying to disarm a bomb that explodes and burns his face. Someone approaches and helps him to grasp his time travelling device, then brings him to a hospital in the future. While the agent is recovering from facial reconstruction, we learn that he has been trying to prevent the "Fizzle Bomber"'s attack on New York, in 1975. After his recovery he receives his last assignment.
The agent moves to 1970 New York. As a bartender, he starts a conversation with one of the customers. The customer, John, writes true confession articles under the pen name "The Unmarried Mother". This pseudonym is explained by his own life story, which he tells the bartender. The customer grew up as "Jane" in an orphanage. She excelled in her studies but had difficulty fitting in. Jane decided any children she had would be raised in a proper family, and thus avoided relationships. As an adult she applied for a program called "Space Corp", which promised women the chance to go to space while providing astronauts R&R, but she was later disqualified because of a medical condition which she was not informed of, which a man named Robertson was interested in. Jane later met a man who said he was waiting for someone. The two fell in love with each other, but later the man disappeared. Robertson approached Jane, revealing that Space Corp worked for the Temporal Agency, and this agency now wanted to recruit her. They broke off contact when it was discovered that Jane was pregnant with her ex-lover's baby. While performing a Caesarean section, doctors discovered she was intersex, with internalized male sex organs as well as female sex organs. Complications during the birth forced them to remove her female sex organs, and she had to undergo a gender reassignment and begin living as a man. Furthermore, the baby was stolen by a mysterious man. Since then, John has been living a bitter life as "The Unmarried Mother".
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