LITR 4632: Literature of the Future

Student Future-Visions Presentation 2009

Tyler Carmona

6 July 2009

A Future Saved by the Past?

Objective 1

Identify, describe, and criticize the standard narratives humans tell about the future:

Alternative

Apocalyptic

Objective 2

To identify, describe, and criticize typical visions or scenarios of the future

high tech—time traveling machine, high-tech weapons

low tech—rough, unstable

dystopia—dysfunctional world attempting to recreate itself

In attempts to continue human life in an uncertain future, a time-travel team transports passengers from past airliners before they crash to repopulate a world found in the distant future. During a mission, the team gets distracted by a hostile passenger and leaves one of their weapons, a stunner, behind.

Louise and her team must go back and retrieve the stunner before the lead investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board discovers it during his research and causes a change in history. Unfortunately, times were drastically changed by the failure of the mission causing the end of the future that everyone knew.

Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3433824537/

Questions for Discussion:

-         In the movie, transporting passengers into the future through time machine saved their lives. If this were possible, would this benefit the future of humankind? 

-         If this concept were used for saving all lives, could this bring the possibility of immortality?