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Heinlein's 'All You Zombies' Now a Sci-Fi Movie Head Trip
HughPickens.com writes: Sara Stewart reports at the NY Post that the new sci-fi movie Predestination, opening January 9, is "loopier than Spielberg's [Minority Report]; its plot twists and turns 'like a snake eating its tail,' one character remarks, until you're not sure whether its developments are even plausible in a fictional universe." It's based on Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction classic All You Zombies, first published in 1959. The story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel, further developing themes explored by Heinlein in a previous work, By His Bootstraps, published some 18 years earlier. Predestination's plot concerns the intersection of a time-traveling assassin and an androgynous young writer
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"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
FYI: There are no zombies in this movie. (Or, at least, there were none in the original story, and it doesn't look like they randomly added any to the movie.)
It's just straight-up scifi time travel.
You didn't get it. One world. One timeline. A human that wasn't descended from the standard strain of humanity. It's a fulfillment "paradox" in that it's a paradox only if the main character would make different choices. But the character doesn't because the character didn't and the character won't. It can be argued that the character can't make different choices any more than George Washington can make different choices about what is already set in history. Once you accept the concept of time travel and reject the concept of "many worlds", all of history throughout time is set in stone. Predestination.
Actually, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would be great as a movie...