百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:[37]Source Code 源代码

Army helicopter pilot, Captain Colter Stevens（Jake Gyllenhaal）, last aware of being on a mission in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train traveling to Chicago. He finds that to the world around him — including his traveling partner Christina Warren（Michelle Monaghan）and the bathroom mirror ——he appears to be Sean Fentress, a school teacher. As he comes to grips with this revelation, the train car explodes, killing everyone aboard. Stevens regains consciousness inside an unfamiliar cockpit. Through a screen, Air Force Captain Colleen Goodwin（Vera Farmiga）verifies Stevens's identity. She explains Stevens is in the “Source Code”，an experimental device created by scientist Dr. Rutledge（Jeffrey Wright）. The Code allows its user to experience the last eight minutes of another compatible person's life within an alternate timeline. Stevens's mission is to use Source Code to discover the location of a bomb aboard the train and identify the bomber who detonated it. Goodwin explains that the train explosion occurred that morning, and was a warning by the bomber as a precursor to a larger dirty bomb that will be detonated in downtown Chicago. Stevens is unwillingly sent back into the Source Code to try again.
Stevens is sent back into the Source Code several times, trying different approaches each time including trying to warn the authorities on the train and trying to flee with Christina. None of these attempts are successful and in each case he is returned to the Source Code to try again. During one of Stevens' attempts, he learns that the train explosion occurred two months after an incident in Afghanistan which reportedly killed him. Once he discovers this, he demands more information from Goodwin. She explains that the remains of his body are in fact on life-support at the Source Code facility while his mind is hooked up to a computer system, the cockpit being a mental projection of his own mind to cope with the experience. Angered to discover this, Stevens requests that his life support be terminated after the mission is completed, to which Dr. Rutledge agrees.
Stevens eventually identifies both the bomber, a young man, Derek Frost（Michael Arden）, and the rented white van that he will use to carry the bomb into the center of Chicago. On his return, Stevens' information is successfully used by the military to capture Frost before he can trigger the bomb. Stevens is praised as a hero, but in private，Rutledge tells Goodwin to renege on the deal, and instead to wipe Stevens's memory so he can be used the next time there is such an incident. Stevens learns that the promise to him has been violated, and convinces Goodwin to let him return to Source Code once more, after which she will disable his life support, against Rutledge's orders.
Once back aboard the train, Stevens disarms the bomb, subdues Frost, and handcuffs him to a railing. Stevens calls the authorities to identify Frost and inform them of the location of the dirty bomb. He then calls his estranged father under the guise of a fellow soldier, mending the emotional distance between them. He challenges an embittered comic（Russell Peters）to perform a stand-up routine on the train, causing laughter throughout the entire train car, and then takes Christina aside. Asking her what she would do if she knew that she only had seconds left to live, Stevens begins to kiss her as his last seconds run out. As promised, at this exact moment, Goodwin disables his life-support and the scene reveals Ns actual, physical body as severely mutilated and comatose. Time freezes, but Stevens is surprised to find himself finishing the kiss, still aboard the train with Christina. He realizes that he will remain in the alternate timeline of the un-bombed train. The train arrives safely in Chicago, and he and Christina walk together and discuss their future.
Later that morning, Goodwin arrives for work at Nellis Air Force Base and receives a text that Stevens had sent earlier, just as news breaks of the failed bombing attempt in Chicago. The text explains that the Source Code effectively allows the user to change history within alternate timelines. Stevens' text ends with him proposing to Goodwin that when his alternate self in this timeline is used in a future Source Code mission, Goodwin should help him, and tell him that “everything is gonna be okay”.
陆军直升机飞行员，柯尔特·斯蒂文斯上尉（杰克·吉伦哈尔饰）最后的意识是在阿富汗执行任务，他在驶向芝加哥的通勤火车上惊醒，从他周围的世界——包括他的旅行伙伴克里斯蒂娜·沃伦（米歇尔·莫娜汉饰）和浴室里的镜子——他发现自己成了肖恩·芬特雷斯，一名中学老师。当他面对这些出乎意料的事时，车厢发生了爆炸，车上的人全部死去。
斯蒂文斯在一座不熟悉的飞机驾驶舱内恢复了意识。通过一个视频，空军上尉科琳·古德温（维拉·法米加饰）核实了斯蒂文斯的身份。她解释说斯蒂文斯身处“源代码”，即科学家拉特里奇博士（杰弗利·怀特饰）创建的一个实验设备中。该代码允许用户穿越时光，体验另一个与自己对应的人的生命里的最后八分钟。斯蒂文斯的使命是利用源代码发现列车上的炸弹的位置，并确定炸弹的引爆人。古德温解释说，火车爆炸案发生在当天上午，制造炸弹爆炸案的人警告说，将会有一个更大的炸弹在芝加哥商业区引爆。斯蒂文斯不情愿地被送到了源代码再次尝试。 斯蒂文斯被数次送回源代码，每次尝试不同的方法，包括提醒火车上的官方，以及试图和克里斯蒂娜逃离。这些尝试都没有成功，在每种情况下，他都会返回到源代码再次尝试。斯蒂文斯在一次尝试中了解到，在发生火车爆炸事件的前两个月，他在阿富汗的一次意外事故中被报告已殒命。他一发现这些，就要求古德温提供更多的详细信息。她解释说，他的身体实际是靠源代码设施提供的生命支持，而他的思想被一个电脑系统所牵制，驾驶舱是他自己思想的一个心理投射，以契合体验。发现这些，他很愤怒，斯蒂文斯要求在任务完成后终止对他生命的支持，拉特里奇博士同意了。
最终斯蒂文斯识别出了引爆手，一个年轻的男人，德里克·弗洛斯特（迈克尔·阿登饰），他租了一辆白色的货车准备用它把炸弹运到芝加哥市中心。斯蒂文斯回来后，他的信息被军方成功运用，在弗洛斯特引爆炸弹之前，抓获了他。斯蒂文斯被誉为英雄，但私下里，拉特里奇让古德温违背协议，删除斯蒂文斯的记忆，以便下次有此类事件时可以再次利用他。斯蒂文斯得知给他的承诺已被违背，说服古德温让他再次返回到源代码，在那之后，她将违反拉特里奇的命令，不再提供对他生命的支持。

再次返回到列车上，斯蒂文斯拆除了炸弹，制伏了弗洛斯特，把他的手铐到了一个栏杆上。斯蒂文斯通知当局验明弗洛斯特的身份，并告知他们安装炸弹的位置。然后他以一个士兵为幌子，给与他疏远的父亲打电话，修补他们之间的情感距离。他在火车上站立不动表演，挑战一个苦怨的滑稽演员（罗素·彼得斯饰），引发了整个车厢的笑声，然后把克里斯蒂娜带到一旁。问她，如果她知道她的生命只剩下最后几秒，她会做什么，在最后几秒将要用尽时，斯蒂文斯开始吻她。像承诺的那样，在这一刻，古德温停止提供对他生命的支持，场景转换到他真实的严重残缺的昏迷过去的身体。时光凝结，斯蒂文斯惊讶地发现自己亲吻完毕，仍然和克里斯蒂娜在火车上。他意识到他仍在穿越的时光中，身处没有爆炸的列车上。火车安全到达芝加哥，他和克里斯蒂娜走在一起，讨论他们的未来。
当天上午的晚些时候，古德温来到内利斯空军基地工作。就在新闻披露企图制造芝加哥爆炸案失败的消息时，她收到了斯蒂文斯早先发来的短信。短信说明源代码能有效允许用户改变穿越的时光内的历史。斯蒂文斯给古德温的短信的最后，是给她的建议，当他所对应的那个自己在穿越的时间内被用于执行未来的源代码任务时，古德温应该帮助他，并告诉他，“一切都会好起来的”。

cockpit［'kɔkˌpit］n. 驾驶员座舱；战场
compatible［kəm'pætəbl］adj. 兼容的；能共处的；可并立的
precursor［pri:'kə:sə］n. 先驱；前导
projection［prə'ʤek∫ən］n. 投射；规划；突出；发射；推测
violate［'vaiəleit］vt. 违反；侵犯；妨碍；亵渎
life-support［laifsə'pɔ:t］n. 生命维持系统
mutilate［'mju:tileit］vt. 切断；毁坏；使……残缺不全；使……支离破碎
comatose［'kəumətəus］adj. 昏迷的；昏睡状态的；麻木的；怠惰的
重点掌握
■ As he comes to grips with this revelation,...
文中，come to grips with是英语中的一个固定搭配，在文中是“认真对待（或解决）……；设法对付……”的意思，比如：We should come to grips with our problems instead of ignoring them. 我们应面对问题而不是忽视问题。另外，该固定搭配还有“（与……）争论；（与……）冲突；（与……）扭作一团；与……搏斗”的意思。

Michelle Monaghan Interviewed by Locke Peterseim
What drew you to this project?
Science fiction isn't something I've dabbled with in the past — it's not something I jumped at the chance to go see in the movie theater, either. But I was really attracted to this script because I thought it was original and had weight — it had an ethical and moral dilemma and was infused with some real drama and some romance.
Source Code is so smart and layered. For some viewers it's going to play as sci-fi, for some it'll be an action thriller, for some it will be a metaphysical mind trip. What is the film about for you?
For me it's about living life to the fullest. Also I was struck by the moral dilemma of the story: Do you sacrifice one life to save several thousand people? It's really provocative and thought — provoking. And if you had eight minutes back to redo in your own life, what would you do differently? What would you say to someone? Would you sacrifice your own life?
You have a big job in the film — your character needs to provide almost all of its emotional core. How do you create that impact when you're playing the same eight minutes over and over?
The audience really has to believe, has to want Christina to live, to want her and Stevens to be together. That's why it was really important to create a back story for this person who really didn't have one, so I could keep referring back to it in my own mind and build this character. Every day she takes the 8:20 train, sits across from the same guy she doesn't really know, and isn't living to her fullest potential. 是什么吸引你加盟这部电影的？
科幻小说既不是过去我涉足的东西，也不是我会抓紧时机去电影院观看的东西。但是我真的被这个剧本吸引住了。因为我认为它是独创的，有一定的分量，有伦理和道德困境，被注入了一些真正的戏剧和浪漫成分。
《源代码》是那么地有灵性和层次。对于有些观众来说，它会是一部科幻片，有些人会认为它是一部动作惊悚片，有些人会认为它是一次超自然的思想旅程。对你来说，这部电影是什么？
对我来说，是好好地享受生命。我还是被这个故事的道德困境打动了：你会牺牲生命来拯救数以千计的人吗？它真的很有挑战性，而且发人深省。如果你拥有八分钟重做你生活中的自己，你会做哪些改变？你会对某人说什么？你愿意牺牲自己的生命吗？
在这部电影里，你有一个艰巨的工作，你的角色需要提供几乎所有的情感核心。当你_次次扮演相同的八分钟时，是如何创造影响的？
观众真的不得不相信，不得不想让克里斯蒂娜重获新生，想让她和斯蒂文斯在一起。这就是为什么要创造一个其实并不存在的人的轮回的故事，这真的很重要，所以始终在我的脑海里打转，创造出了这个人物。每天她乘坐8:20的列车，坐在她其实并不了解的同一个人对面，她没有活出自己的最大潜能。

托弗·戈瑞斯原本是影片的主演。
影片大部分在加拿大蒙特利尔取景拍摄。少量的镜头在芝加哥拍摄。影片在芝加哥的千禧公园取景拍摄，这是芝加哥最大的城市花园。
影片只用了两个月时间便拍摄完成：从2010年的3月1日到4月29日。
影片原定的作曲是克林特·曼塞尔，他曾经给邓肯·琼斯的处女作《月球》配乐。可是后来因为某些原因，他退出了剧组。