Ja, det är en paradox .
Filmens hela punkt, som titeln antyder, spelar med paradoxer och predestination. En mycket detaljerad beskrivning av filmen finns på dess wiki , men kanske av mer intresse är kort historia (bara tio sidor) som den baserades på: Alla du zombies , av den underbara Robert A. Heinlein . Om du läser dess wiki får du samma uppdelning som Predestination , men skrivs mycket mer verbosely. Att citera från sin wiki:
'—All You Zombies—'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be
intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his
younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns
out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result
that he is his own mother and father. As the story unfolds, all the
major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different
stages of her/his life.
Det var denna serie av paradoxer som inspirerade filmens skaparna :
FLICKS: How did you first encounter the short story?
PETER SPIERIG: I had just been reading a lot of short stories and All You Zombies by Robert A Heinlein was just one that really stuck
with me. I remember reading it and thinking ‘Wow, that’s a real
original’. I gave it to my brother to read and he reacted the same
way. We both thought it would be great to make into a film one day. We
didn’t know how we were gonna do it, but we both thought ‘Boy, this
would make an interesting film!’ And then eventually we stopped saying
‘One day’ and we said ‘Okay, today we’re going to try and turn this
into a screenplay.’ That’s kind of where it all came from.