12 Monkeys

12 Monkeys (1995)

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"Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys," Frances Flannery Dailey, Journal of Religion and Film, 2000.
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Themes
- Alternate Realities, Connectedness
  - Relationship and Consequence for actions reaches both into past and into future.
- Apocalyptic
  - Ultimately futile struggle between the forces of life and death.
  - See "Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn," Conrad Ostwalt, Journal of Religion and Film, 2000.
  - "Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys," Frances Flannery Dailey, Journal of Religion and Film, 2000.
- Confrontation with Evil
  - James Cole's inevitably unsuccessful and eternally cyclical attempt to stop the virus (evil).
- Fate
  - Certain things about reality cannot be changed. (Boy watches his own death in the future, over and over and over. Though he tries to save the world, James Cole (J.C.) is also caught up in the realities of fate and the cycles of reality.)
- Savior/Saving
  - James Cole (J.C.) attempts to save the world, but nothing can be done about the deadly virus.
  - "Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys," Frances Flannery Dailey, Journal of Religion and Film, 2000.