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love to return to the future
Therefore, in Route C, which is the main part of Part 3, Clara's lifespan is considerably extended, and Doc also escapes death through Marty's intervention. Instead, Marty and Tannen end up dueling, and the name of Clint Eastwood, which Marty had chosen on a whim, appears on the tombstone of the future Doc that was in the photo. In other words, Marty's death is foretold. The climax of the story is how Marty survives this duel, but with a little bit of growth and resourcefulness, he successfully defeats Tannen, and along with Doc, he attempts to return to 1985 using the DeLorean, which he pushes and accelerates with a locomotive.
The gravestone in the photo disappears without a trace, meaning that Doc and Marty's deaths were completely avoided, but there is one thing left behind in 1885. It's Clara. The night before, Doc confesses to Clara his true identity and that he must return to the future, but she takes this as an insult to herself, becomes furious, and laments. Feeling betrayed by Doc, she tries to leave Hill Valley by train the next day, but when she learns from the comments of other passengers that Doc has been mourning all night at a bar, she suddenly stops the train and takes Doc's place. Rush to the blacksmith. There, she sees a model that Doc made to experiment with the process of time travel and learns that his story is true, so she rides a horse and follows the humans from the future.
What would have happened if Clara had remained in the passenger car? If the barbed wire salesman who had met Doc at the bar last night hadn't been sitting in the back seat, if Clara hadn't heard the conversation around her. Later, Doc and Marty steal the locomotive that Clara was on, so if Clara stays on board, her journey will be interrupted for quite some time. And even though he had left Hill Valley alone with his sadness, the frustration of not being able to go anywhere else because the train had stopped made him even more desperate, and he ended up going straight into the valley and throwing himself down. Could it have happened? But that didn't happen. The barbed wire salesman, touched by Doc, sat behind Clara, and Clara wasn't so exhausted that she couldn't hear anything, and above all, Doc's feelings were somehow connected to Clara. It must have been transmitted to She chose to get off the train and run to Doc.
Clara catches up to the locomotive and jumps over, trying to alert Doc ahead of her presence. Needless to say, Clara is getting closer and closer to the valley here as well. The reason why the "road" for Doc and Marty to return to the future continues beyond the valley is probably because their return to the future is deeply tied to Clara's life and death. If Doc hadn't noticed that Clara was on board, he could have just boarded the DeLorean and returned to his original time with Marty, but in that case, as soon as the DeLorean disappeared, the locomotive crashed into the ravine with Clara still inside. do. Even in Route C, where Clara once escaped death, it can be said that she was resisting until the end, trying to return to the way history should be, but that doesn't happen. Clara blows the whistle, and Doc notices it. Now that he realizes this, Doc has no choice but to return to Clara. There is no other route. No matter how many times Clara approaches the Valley of Death, the natural convergence of world lines cannot match Doc's love for her. Doc uses the power of love to overcome the cosmic laws such as the space-time continuum and time paradox that he has repeatedly preached to Marty.
Just as Doc saves Clara, the DeLorean reaches the speed of 88 miles per hour required for time travel, leaving Marty alone to return to the future. A sign erected in 1985 reveals that the valley was renamed Eastwood Valley (because Marty, who used to call himself Clint Eastwood, disappeared into the valley); This is proof that Clara has completely escaped her fate of falling into the ravine and dying. Marty's return to the future means that he disappears beyond the valley, which also means that the valley's name changes and that he saves Clara. Conversely, it is also possible to return to the future without saving Clara. ).
This work can be said to be Doc's story. Of course, Marty also overcomes his tendency to get angry and avoids Tannen's provocations, as well as his bad friend Needles' provocations even after returning to 1985, and avoids an accident that would change his fate forever. , he will carve out his own future by growing up, but I still want to call Part 3 the story of Doc and Clara. The two of them who escaped the fate of death should have become an existence that should never have existed in history, but how did they end up with a future that would allow them to have two children? This is just my imagination, but I think Clara was completely saved from the curse of the valley by being with Doc for the rest of her life. If Clara meets Doc and stays with her forever without being shot by Tannen, Clara will no longer have a chance to die in the ravine. By living with Clara, Doc may have been able to truly find his place as a person of the 1880s.
As the title suggests, the BTTF series is a story about returning to the future, and the key is how to send energy to a time machine that is in trouble. In Part 1, it's the energy from plutonium and lightning strikes, and in Part 3, the problem is simply how to run a car when it runs out of gas. However, I think that the energy that sent Marty into the future at the very end was the love between Doc and Clara. The same driving force is why Doc, who once regretted inventing the time machine and became reluctant because time travel was beyond humanity's control, eventually built a time machine again and became positive about time travel and exploration. Isn't it for? This is symbolized by none other than the children they had together. The children Jules and Verne, whose names directly reflect their romance with science, are proof of this.
When Marty asks if he's going to the future again, Doc just says, "I've already seen that," and flies off in a locomotive-shaped time machine, but that must mean he's a resident of 1985. I think it means that he has decided to quit and live in a different era with Clara and the children. For Doc, the world he has lived in is now his future. I think it's a great way to end the story.
Illustrations and text: Mizumaru Kawahara
Born in 1991. Illustrator. In addition to illustrations and covers for magazines and books, there are also illustration columns for movies and books. New movie reviews are currently being serialized in "SPUR" (Shueisha).
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