Repeated moments, different personalities

Reyes 2022-01-02 08:01:45

I am afraid that everyone will compare this "Time and Space Crime" with "Terror Cruise" after reading it. . . A person keeps meeting with himself, trying to change something but nothing can be changed. This is probably the intuitive impression most people have after watching these two films. . .
However, I think that the two points of view contained in this intuitive impression are not the original intention of the film: 1. "Criminal Time and Space" is not a cycle, but the same person passes through the same point in time three times. . . 2. The hero doesn't want to change anything, but wants nothing to change. . .

First of all, I am a firm acyclicist about this film. . . In my opinion, the male protagonist is only going back to the past twice and experiencing the same time point three times with the help of the space-time machine, so that three different personalities appear on the same scene and observe the same thing from three angles. . .
When each personality has traveled through time twice, their time continues to flow forward instead of returning to the starting point again. . .
Just like the hero and the heroine walk along two parallel roads, the hero walks into the fork in the middle of the road, and after a round, he returns to the heroine and continues to move forward. . .
The male protagonist just walked a bit longer than the female protagonist, and the name of this path is "the past". . .

Secondly, I think that for the first time the male protagonist travels and approaches the past self, it is not that he wants to kill "self" and replace it. . . All he did was to reproduce everything, let "self" find the time and space machine, go back to the past, and then he resumed his normal life in this time and space. . . This can explain why the male protagonist stabbed the arm behind "self" instead of killing him. . .
Regrettably, his plan did not succeed because he did not expect that there would be three selves at the same time. . .
When the male protagonist returned to the laboratory and heard that there was a third self, he suddenly realized that it was not his efforts that caused the event to develop according to the predetermined trajectory, but this trajectory forced him to do everything (a bit fatalistic) ). . . Before the second time travel, he finally said that he had "no choice" for everything that happened. . . Twice, experiencing the same things from different angles, the third time, the male protagonist is like opening the perspective of God, knowing everything that is about to happen, and calmly accepting everything that happens. . . In the end, he encouraged the woman to run upstairs and cause her to fall to her death, but because the protagonist already knew that her death was inevitable. . .

I think what "Time and Space Sin" wants to express is that the reversal of time and space has created a cold sin. . .

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Timecrimes quotes

  • [last lines]

    Clara: Hector...

    Héctor: It's okay.

    [throws the scissors]

    Héctor: We still have a while before it starts raining.

  • Héctor: I need help. A man is after me. He's trying to kill me.