The Sixth Sense
Vertigo
The Usual Suspects (my favorite by far)
Frailty
Shattered (although the lead man is a TOOL)
RE Apes: I loved this ending! Walking out of the theatre not liking it at all, like most I guess. Then some friends of mine and I sat and chatted about it and came up with this....
The time storm is the key. There is no rhyme or reason as to how it propells objects out of itself and through time. So the film has a certain amount to do with randomness. For example, The objects enter the storm in this order...
Monkey, Marky the monkey man, Oberon
This sets the audience up with some sort of time sequence as to how the objects will travel through time, every time. This is totally erroneous as the objects do NOT arrive in this order. The ship arrives centuries earlier than Marky and the monkey arrives after Marky. This right here shows us that the storm is erratic and unpredictable. So, there will be no saying this should have arrived at this time and this should have come here, because the storm is random.
Ok, that out of the way, watch carefully the end of the film when Limbo (slave trader), steals an item from the ship Marky is about to take. What is it? What could it have been? The ships flight manual perhaps? Schematic included mayhap? Who knows, but it could have contained some information about the ship and space travel.
At one point in the film, someone is talking about the Oberon and says that the Oberon has stored all the broadcasts from earth and stored them since in service. Was this an automated system? was it still operational for a while after the oberon went through time? Could someone, perhaps an intelligent ape general trapped RIGHT NEXT to the computer for an extended period of time have gained access to all these recordings, totally absorbing and becoming obsessed with the culture he saw in these recordings? Perhaps gaining enough knowledge during this time of our govt structure, or architecture and our modes of travel? Then finally getting out, recovering the ship (I mean 50 apes with a few strong ropes could pull that little toy ship out of the water), and using it's shell to get an operational ship going to get out into the time storm which, since it's so erratic, might throw him farther back than Monkey Mark to either infiltrate earth at an earlier time (unlikely) OR rebuild his own planet into a likeness of earth (what I think really happened) and establish a somewhat similar society of apes, now modelled after earth because of the knowledge gained from the oberon (which probably spawned the initial ape race on the planet when it went WAY back in time). Remember, there were some anxious apes on the Oberon when it entered the cloud, and they got out. This was the start of the primitive ape race on the planet, which was then reshaped and molded by Thade after the ancestor monkeys evolved to his current state. The old relic gun reinforces this theory quite well.
So by transporting INFORMATION through time, a number of times, and coupled with the experiments on the intelligence of primates (a caveat maybe?), humans create their own demise or overthrowing as a race. The tests on the monkeys can explain accelerated evolution as well.
There is more to this film, and I like thinking about the cool scenarios that you can apply. There will always be room for paradox, this is time travel, but it's not an incomprehensible mess to be sure.
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