It's made of people?

[aesmael]

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

Watching the movie Next starring Nicholas Cage. Have decided prescience is memory theft. We see an exchange between people happen, come to a conclusion, then the film jerks time back to show it has not happened yet and our protagonist takes a different path so what we saw never happens. So, he's stealing memories from the people around him, he remembers what no longer will happen and they don't get to.

Clearly the theft of future memories is what powers his abilities. There is no other logical conclusion.

Comments

[coniferous_you]

Also the other conceit of this movie is that Nicholas Cage can still deceive people out of their money by being in bad movies.

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Fortunately I paid him nothing.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

I think it's the power of paradox. Consider. He sees something, then works to make it not happen. Therefore that entire future ceases to exist. The outrage of the Universe at being involuntarily changed is what powers him.

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

You know, you may be right. I've been mistaken on this.