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12 Monkeys Anthropology
Twelve Monkeys is a American science fiction movie, film on 1995, by Terry Gilliam. It highlights the participation of the starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt.
The plot is about a deadly, unknown virus that has affected the world population in 1996 and now in 2035 only 1% of the population has survived and have to live underground. This virus is suspected of being work of a terrorist group known as Twelve Monkeys. James Cole, play by Bruce Willis, is a convict who is elected for a mission, would have to travel back in time and collect information of the virus with the aim of finding a cure, doing this Cole would be liberate. But the time machine is not perfect and they fall at any time in the past, going crazy poor time travelers.
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This vision brings Cole many questions as problems. This makes Cole ask himself if he was becoming crazy.

The people thought that Cole was crazy because seems to be, by talking about things that would occur on the future, like the virus. He talked about being send by the future machine through the past time to look for important information about the lethal virus. He talk about the twelve monkeys army, and the underground scientist, who send him in a mission for search the cure of the deadly virus that affects the future. Cole soon becomes to be searched by the authorities because the kidnapped Kathryn Railly in his mission of finding the twelve monkeys also was searched by murdered. He begins to be seen as an insane criminal. Cole reflected by eating spider and by broken his own teeth with his knife because there was a tracking device that he had missing a screw; their actions speak for themselves, although it was the last option, that is not normal. As Cole delves into the mystery, he hears voices, loses his bearings, and doubts his own sanity. He said that even the people of his own time were not real; he was convincing he was becoming insane and crazy. Scientist on the present said that the time machines could make
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Every act that Cole made, have sense. Likewise, he seems to not think on the causes he does with that events. The voice in his head and the visions he had makes his lost his sanity. He finally felt in love with Kathryn Railly and died in her arms while his visions comes true, the child seen the murdered was Cole as a kid seen his own dead. This is the tragic ending for

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