
So it is a day shy of the end of June 2 x 1000 + 10. I'm sure no one will read this, but I will try to post this anyway. Not long ago I was talking to my friend in her living room at what I am pretty sure was 3am; after some mixture of being kicked out and leaving my home two and a half hours earlier.
We were discussing all kinds of topics, everything from what we aspire too, to the fact that shit happens. She started to describe an idea she had, which she thought would make an excellent film. I would have to agree because the whole idea of it was 'What if you could see, or somehow
know when somebody was going to die? Or how much time they had left on the life clock floating above their head?' I must say after much discussing, the idea had me intrigued. Encouragingly I said "One scene could be of the main character somehow discovering he had this remarkable ability, [to see how much time people had left to breathe] he walks past a man who has less than three minutes left, so he follows at a distance until he sees the clock wind down to 0:00:01, and BAM!! He gets taken out by a truck!" Then she replies "Yeah, or he could save the guy somehow and sees the time clock go from 0:00:01 all the way up to 23:34:25:58" (some random number signifying he still had more time to live because he had just been saved.)
I told her that would be good for the audience to help with the plot, or make the story more interesting (and I wanted to say interesting for most of the population because they are idiots). She didn't understand, so I tried to explain that you cannot change the future. No matter how hard you try, the future will happen the way it's supposed to happen. If by some miracle you could see a man with less than three minutes to live, no matter how hard you try, even if you put him in some kind of a perfect protective bubble, he would die.