Welcome To The Twelve Monkeys

It's hard to make a story interesting when the audience knows from the start that nothing the characters do can change the outcome. That's not to say a movie has never seen success using this method. A very well respected film by surreal director in fact proves that as limited as a format can seem, no one ever knows all the outcomes that will always occur. It also proves that all insane asylums are in desperate need of a paint job, the rich and privileged are undoing way society because they're bored, and Bruce Willis is still awesome even when he's a full body condom attacked by a bear. Confused yet? Welcome to the twelve Monkeys.
Terry Gilliam's film tells the tale of James Cole, a prisoner whose crimes are never made clear. He is forced

When Cole catches up with Jeffery a few years down the road, he’s living off his rich, respective father's wealth. His father is a CEO of a company with a virology lab. Well, Cole is searching for the cause of the pandemic of the future. Jeffery is a red herring; he's a crazy animal rights person who releases animals, crisis averted, until the one person Jeffrey’s father entrusted with the deadly virus happens to be at the airport when Cole’s fleeing the

It is implied that he essentially gave Jeffery the idea. Later on we find out that the Army of the Twelve Monkeys have nothing to do with the release of the virus. There's an earlier scene in which Dr. Mason is alerted and tells Dr. Peters of his son’s plan. Dr. Peters is indeed the man who released the virus. His expression tells us that he didn’t know Jeffery’s plan before Dr. Mason told him. This would hold Cole responsible as the one to push him towards the plan. In the final analysis we're left off within ambiguous ending. An ending that could also be seen as the beginning of the story. It's implied that this is a never-ending loop that begins with Cole seeing his own death and settle his path. His mission was never to change the past, as the film states, the past cannot be changed but rather to affect the future of the