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Back to the Future
By David Stern
One of my favorite movies was "Back to the Future". I first watched it when I was six years old, but when I recently watched it for the millionth time, I still enjoyed it. First of all, the concept of time travel will always be interesting. People always wonder if they could have returned to the past or saw the future. People also wonder whether they could change events from the past. The movie's script is like music to me. It has rhythm and motives. Notice, for example, how sentences like the following are spoken: "I have to tell you about the future" or "Nobody calls me chicken". Another motif in the movie is the clocks. Notice how they just appear everywhere. It is no incidence that the thunderbolt hits a clock tower, or that Doc's lab is full of clocks, and the time machine is full of clocks (Doc even adds to it another alarm clock to tell Marty when to hit the gas). An interesting point in the movie, which I noticed only in recent years, is that it is inspired by the story of Oedipus from the Greek myth. Marty becomes somewhat alike Oedipus, when he pushes his father away and goes out with his mother. If it is not clear enough in the original movie, it becomes clear in the sequel (Back to the Future 2), when following Marty's actions, Biff murders his father and marries his mother. I imagine Robert Zemeckis, the creator of the movie, creating its idea: Hmm... Let’s do a movie that will be a hit... What will it be about? Time travel! People would like that... and if it is about time travel, let's do it about the paradox about a person that goes back in time and makes his parents not meet... and if we're doing the movie about a person and his parents, let's make him have an Oedipus Complex! |
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One of the things I had to laugh at and I noticed it the first time I saw the movie is the name of the Mall. In the first part of the movie it is Twin Pines Mall. Marty runs over one of the pines when he goes back to the past. Notice that the farmer is upset about his tree being damaged. Later in the movie it is called Lone Pine Mall. This illustrates to me how even small, seemingly insignificant details can have a major impact on our future.
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