‘12 Monkeys’ at monthly screening
Monthly Film Screening of Digital Film Academy, Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF) will show ‘12 Monkeys’, a 1995 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam.
Inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 short film La Jetée, the film stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, with Christopher Plummer and David Morse in supporting roles it will be screened at 4 pm on January 28 at SLF Digital Film Academy Studio.
Following the filmscreening there will be discussion conducted by Chathura Jayathilake on the theme ‘Time as the Horizon of Being’ and it is moderated by filmmaker Sudath Mahadiwulwewa.
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground.
A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it.
Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.