Posted by Philip Palmer on March 5th, 2008 at 12:18 in Screen Writing, Science Fiction
Great film! See it.
Imagine if you could travel anywhere, whenever you wanted.
It's that simple really. A science fiction extrapolation of the back-packer's wanderlust. You can travel to London, Rome, and Egypt - and still be home in time to watch your favourite show on telly.
There are villains, rather good ones, if dubiously motivated; and Samuel L. Jackson plays a bad guy with a scary haircut. But the real conflict is between two Jumpers, who bicker and end up having a fist fight that zaps exhilaratingly from location to location.
It's a film that has no resonance, and leaves no lasting insights or profundities in the mind. It's just - zap - zap - zap - great fun.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Teleportation is real, it can be done.
A scientist sent a particle and it disappeared arriving at it's destination immediately. Funny old quantum physics was involved!
April 8th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Absolutely! This is our old friend quantum entanglement,apparently. But as I understand it, the only way to teleport is to allow your body to be destroyed then rebuilt as a perfect replica at a different location.
Remember how fuzzy faxes used to be? We could all end up as fuzzy faxes every time we teleport abroad...