Plot synopsis
In 1939, Daniel is a US Army Captain and test pilot. His lover has been in a coma for several months, and he does not want to be around when she dies.
So, he volunteers for a new top-secret military experiment and becomes first man to be cryogenically frozen.
Daniel is supposed to be frozen for one year, but the scientist running the experiment dies, and the capsule is not discovered until 1992.
In the future, he begins to age quicker than all those around him, as time seems to be catching up with him.
Daniel discovers his lover survived the coma, so he tracks her down and proposed to her. By this time, they are the same age and get married.
My comments
A film with forward time travel but no backwards time travel.
See also other films with cryogenic freezing, such as Idiocracy (2006), Demolition Man (1996), Sleeper (1973) and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997).
Summary of time travel
Cryogenic freezing does not allow the past to be changed, but the time traveller’s arrival in the future allows the future to be changed.
There is no scientific reason for his rapid ageing that occurs once he comes back to life.
Also, from the moment he leaves the timeline, his absence will cause a new timeline to be created without him. However, we cannot say if this converges or diverges unless we have backwards time travel.
Category of time travel
Science fiction: cryogenic freezing.
Model of time
Undefined past, open future with a future timeline.
