 Thanks to the Lego reproduction of the three versions of the DeLorean, I finally have the opportunity to talk about the Back to the Future franchise, this series of films that has enthralled not only me but I believe entire generations. Talking about this cinematic phenomenon today that we are in 2025, is something that makes a certain impression on me because it puts me in a position of the future even more advanced than the protagonists of the film. Starting from 1985, the films tell the story through the time of other years such as 1955, 2015 and 1885, accessing the hypothetical parallel universes through the famous DeLorean modified by the scientist Doc for time travel. The first time I saw the first film was the late eighties and in that story the protagonists returned to the past but in the end the scientist Doc managed to go to the future in the year 2015, implying that in the second film the adventures would take place in that year. At the time, you had to wait for the films to be broadcast on TV and I remember that I was incredibly curious to see the future through the eyes of the protagonists of Back to the Future Part II. I waited a long time for that film and I must say that it went far beyond my expectations, the technology they showed seemed impossible to me and at that time we were in the early nineties. Certainly highlighting the flying DeLorean was an element that in a certain way overshadowed all the other futuristic technologies that appeared in the film. However, I remember that the scene set in 2015 in which Marty McFly returns home and starts a video call with his boss, not only seemed too futuristic to me but left me perplexed. Back then more than today I had perceived the total lack of privacy that that technology brought with it and on the other hand, I did not understand its advantages. I must say that watching the film I felt calm because I believed that scene could remain within the scope of fiction, however things went in a totally different way. The colonialist-imperialist capitalism of the Western world has in fact managed in a highly skillful way to spread technological evolution in such a way as not to make its unhealthy side perceived. The DeLorean was the main element around which the films of the series revolved and consequently the possibility of time travel. The car was not produced by a popular brand and in fact it was unknown especially to us Europeans. However, the car had a very particular sporty design with a personal character, considering that it was from the eighties it already had a futuristic connotation in itself, not conditioned by the role it had in the films. Regarding them, I believe that each of us was fascinated by time travel for different reasons. Initially I was curious to be able to see the past, especially places more than people, this is because I have always been fascinated by noir films and those atmospheres. Watching the first film then and discovering that there would even be scenes set in the future, this detail made me mature the curiosity to understand how everything would have been. Today that curiosity is no longer there but rather I have developed theories on time travel and the reality of our planet. Let's say that while as a young man I was carried away by the hypotheses seen in films, as I matured I saw everything in a rational way, evaluating options that arise from other studies. Studying and using rationality, before talking about time travel we must understand who we really are and here there are two options; the first option is that we are real beings, made of matter and destined to die that live in a strip of land. The second hypothesis is that we live in a simulated reality where probably other entities remotely control all our alleged actions like in a video game. In the first case not only time travel but the concept of time itself is something unreal. We measure time for convenience but in reality there are only seasons conditioned by the motion of the sun and the moon (personally I do not believe in the motion of the earth that turns on itself at 1,300 km per hour on its own inclined axis and at the same time turns around the sun and so on). These seasons are marked in time simply by a series of uses and customs that are voluntarily and meticulously changed to give the idea of time passing. Fashion, trends, photos and videos characterized by an evolutionary concept and technology itself are the tools to create the different aspects of time by creating lifestyles and habits that make the eras seem different. In reality, a truly evolved civilization once it has reached maturity and perfection, does not need to live in the concept of evolution. In other words, I believe that there is a system that creates all this to make us live according to this belief of time passing, but try to imagine a society stuck in perfection where there is no money, work or economic system, totally artificial concepts that have nothing to do with our nature as spiritual beings. In a context like the one I described, which would be the official one in which we live, time travel could only exist in the case of what pseudo-science calls parallel universes. In essence, there should be as many twin universes as the smallest part of time is divided. It's like when in a race the athletes start a few minutes apart and then the time each of them takes to reach the finish line is calculated. All participants in the same race but each of them competes on their own. Likewise it should exist in a concept of eternity, every single instant that runs parallel and constant in the continuous space-time. How and if the events of these different times can overlap or change by changing the events of some of the parallel universes, is what the film revolves around, paradoxically a plausible possibility. I am of the opinion that we live in an era where a few entities command and decide the fate of all known humanity and it seems strange to me to have happened in the worst period of all existence in general. Let us keep in mind that technically an occult elite could have already had advanced technologies for some time and have created the entire history that we have studied simply with what is now passed off as artificial intelligence. In this case what we live is only an agenda already studied and architected that is carried forward by marking the eras with the trends as I described before. In this regard, there is a very important scene in Back to the Future II where the old Biff of 1985, after finding the almanac with the sports results, takes it with the DeLorean to himself in 1955. Biff, giving the almanac to his young self, creates different events where the young version of himself, betting and winning because he knows the results, becomes rich and powerful to the point of economically controlling the city in 1985. That is known as Biff's alternative future, where an era of decadence is created, without morals and made of violence and abuse. But in my opinion that scene, seen in another way, let's say unaware, as if we didn't know how Biff became truly rich, for me is a very strong subliminal message. Let's think of all the historical figures who have made some discovery, who have become important and have changed the world. Let's also think of those who, with art, have influenced and inspired others, making them take different paths. Let’s think for a moment about how the people of Biff’s alternate future saw this person; for them Biff was truly a successful person! What if this were the case for all the people of a certain level that we know today? What if, as I theorized before, an elite inherited certain technologies and then assigned them to this or that person just to create a believable narrative? Could this also be the case in the field of music as well as in the field of architecture for example, where pseudo architects were credited for works that our species could never ever achieve, especially when the logistics were represented by wagons and horses? For some time now I have seen that scene of Biff carrying the almanac to himself as a metaphor for the reality we live in today. For a long time I have had the impression that the Back to the Future series as well as other films are actually a way to mock people as well as entertain them. Another scene that has always made me think is the one in 1955 when lightning strikes the DeLorean in such a way as to generate enough power to make the car travel through time. Just as in Asimov's Foundation Trilogy novel , some characters possessed a small device capable of generating incredible power, watching the lightning scene I always wondered how it would be possible to store energy like that generated by lightning and then release it slowly. A technology that is capable of storing such energy both in a large power plant as well as on a chip. This last hypothesis is not so bizarre, after all we went from large transistors to micro chips in one night. Probably for many the Lego reproduction of the DeLorean is just a model that pays homage to a series of films that mostly made people fantasize leaving the events described only as imaginative and science fiction hypotheses. Personally, seeing the Lego model, first I thought of all these theories that I described and then I wanted the model of the car to pay homage to them. Probably in the nineties I would have used the same approach as ordinary people but luckily at least I, living try to understand the mystery of life, at least I have had a minimum of evolution. Those who learned the history of the world by studying in school books written in the twentieth century, will fall into indifference by calling me a conspiracy theorist when I am simply a living being who uses logic and rationality without being influenced by propaganda. Progress      The Lego set of the DeLorean contained thirteen envelopes for over 400 steps and I assembled the car in six days. I must say that the process was quite linear and simple, exactly how I like it; a process carried out in total relaxation. From a practical point of view, the assembly began with the construction, also using technic bricks, of what looked like a square box. Initially I thought it was one of the two axles but then I discovered that it was actually the central part of the car. To understand which was the front part, I had to get to step 173 after having placed the fenders. Generally speaking, after having reached the final length of the car, the steps continued with both the internal and external setup. At step 233 I mounted the legendary flux capacitor and then the most technical but not complex part was assembling the doors with the gull-wing opening. Before assembling the final part of the hood and the wheels, the instructions ask which version of the car you want to assemble and take you to the dedicated page. Personally I assembled the classic version and then assembled the components of the other versions. I was convinced that the various models could be created by simply removing and replacing components already assembled, however this was not the case. In reality, you could not assemble a model and then change it, because some bricks were needed for both versions but assembled differently. This is something that disappointed me because it was enough to put duplicates of a few bricks and by doing so you could switch from one version to another easily. To do this, however, you had to assemble the central part of the hood with the male bricks facing upwards in order to then apply the component of the version of the third film. In general the car is faithfully reproduced and has the right proportions, however perhaps because of the color, the dividing lines of the bricks are a little too noticeable, when I saw it in the photo for the first time, I had not noticed this detail. All in all I appreciated this set especially for the ease of assembly, if it had been possible to change the versions rather than choosing one it would have been perfect. However this detail is something that does not affect the beauty of the car and what it represents both for the collective imagination and for me and my theories. Details        Gallery     A.M.
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