Yeah, I'm afraid spoilers are going to be necessary here! Highlight to read:
The film is set in 2077, sixty years post-apocalypse. Jack and Vika 49, whom we spend most of the film with, are eventually revealed to be clones of the original Jack and Vika, who died in 2017. The characters themselves did not know this; they were kept from finding out about each other by the film's villain telling them not to cross into the 'radiation zones' where they might encounter each other.
Characters who speak to Jack 49 go into some detail about how he's different from other Jacks who have come before him, and his worldview is implied to be shaped by the books, records, clothes and other artifacts he finds in the ruins of New York. It's reasonable to assume that other Jacks, who patrol vastly different territories, might find different things there and therefore have different thoughts, different worldviews, and possibly even different ways of presenting themselves.
We later meet another Jack, Jack 52, who is clearly much younger and more anxious/less jaded in general than 'our' Jack.
At the end of the film, it's implied that the planet goes back to immediately-post-apocalypse conditions, and all the Jacks and Vikas will have to come to the surface to survive instead of living in their isolated high-tech towers in the zones they were earlier confined to. It's not inconceivable that some of them might encounter each other, and that in such a situation the various differences between them would come into play.
It's less evident in the film that the Vikas differ from one another than that the Jacks do; Vika 49 and Vika 52 are shown to be very similar (and Vika 49, at least, is somewhat of an abusive partner to Jack 49, but that's another story). However, we do meet the original Vika who died in 2017, and she's a lovely nerd who's very different from the Vika clones. I think, and there is at least one person in the fandom who agrees with me, that it's possible other Vika clones whom we didn't meet onscreen could have dealt with their trauma in different and healthier ways than the ones we do meet, and that it would be interesting to explore what makes that so.
Thanks for your patience! I hope this clarifies enough. 💛
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Date: 2020-01-10 03:12 pm (UTC)The film is set in 2077, sixty years post-apocalypse. Jack and Vika 49, whom we spend most of the film with, are eventually revealed to be clones of the original Jack and Vika, who died in 2017. The characters themselves did not know this; they were kept from finding out about each other by the film's villain telling them not to cross into the 'radiation zones' where they might encounter each other.
Characters who speak to Jack 49 go into some detail about how he's different from other Jacks who have come before him, and his worldview is implied to be shaped by the books, records, clothes and other artifacts he finds in the ruins of New York. It's reasonable to assume that other Jacks, who patrol vastly different territories, might find different things there and therefore have different thoughts, different worldviews, and possibly even different ways of presenting themselves.
We later meet another Jack, Jack 52, who is clearly much younger and more anxious/less jaded in general than 'our' Jack.
At the end of the film, it's implied that the planet goes back to immediately-post-apocalypse conditions, and all the Jacks and Vikas will have to come to the surface to survive instead of living in their isolated high-tech towers in the zones they were earlier confined to. It's not inconceivable that some of them might encounter each other, and that in such a situation the various differences between them would come into play.
It's less evident in the film that the Vikas differ from one another than that the Jacks do; Vika 49 and Vika 52 are shown to be very similar (and Vika 49, at least, is somewhat of an abusive partner to Jack 49, but that's another story). However, we do meet the original Vika who died in 2017, and she's a lovely nerd who's very different from the Vika clones. I think, and there is at least one person in the fandom who agrees with me, that it's possible other Vika clones whom we didn't meet onscreen could have dealt with their trauma in different and healthier ways than the ones we do meet, and that it would be interesting to explore what makes that so.
Thanks for your patience! I hope this clarifies enough. 💛