Plot understanding: We haven't changed anything

Ole 2022-11-29 06:42:54

This small cost reminds me of the night when the comet came. This article contains spoilers and my own understanding of the plot.
We haven't changed anything, all endings have already been written.
First of all, let me call the day when the protagonists kill each other as Murder Day, that is, the end of everything and the beginning of everything.
On Murder Day, the male protagonist had an epiphany while painting and said that we hadn't changed anything at all. Indeed, the future has already been written. There is no such thing as the protagonists who don’t do what they do in the photo, so they change the future and change the way they look in the photo...because the future is that they will do what they do in the photo, so this logic is a cycle. It is similar to the egg or the chicken first, but no matter what comes first, the final photo is consistent with reality anyway.


The beginning of a series of events in the film was a week before the opening day of the film. On November 27th, Mr. B took two photos a day and found it very successful. So an experiment with a larger time span was done, that is, a picture of Murder Day was taken. But these two photos led to everything that follows.
After Mr. B found the two murder day photos, he was a little confused and horrified. The first is a daytime photo. There is blood on the window, Mr. B’s hat is on the sofa, and the male protagonist’s painting actually painted the coil in his storage room. This is something the male protagonist has never seen. How could he paint this? Even more frightening is the photo at night, the house opposite has been sealed. So Mr. B speculates that he died on that day, and that he might have a bloody fight with the opposite man’s family. But he was not reconciled, so he wanted to try to reverse the future. So after sending a letter and writing a log, he went to the storage room to check his coils, but this caused his accidental death.
After Mr. B's death, due to a few days of not showing up the ticket, etc., it caused the heroine to visit his house, which triggered a series of incidents between the heroes and heroines.

After discovering the secrets of the time camera and Mr. B's body, the male and female protagonists speculated that people could not defy time and had to do as shown in the photo.
From the very beginning, the female protagonist hid the photo at 8 o'clock in the morning and did something secretly by herself. Maybe she thought it was an opportunity to change the relationship between herself and her boyfriend. The hostess sees the reminder written to herself in the photo tomorrow morning every morning, and then follows the reminder to do things, and advances the development of all things until the day of murder. The hostess has always felt that all this is going on smoothly and has eased the relationship between her and her boyfriend. As long as she writes a reminder according to yesterday's photo today, everything will develop smoothly.
The female protagonist on Murder Day should have just wanted to post a note based on the photo yesterday morning, and then packed up her things and went away with the male protagonist. As a result, she was caught by the male protagonist at the window. So all her previous work was abandoned. Her previous affair was discovered by the male protagonist, and the relationship she had worked so hard to improve was shattered. At this time, her only hope is the time machine, because the hero told her that the future can be changed. So she killed the protagonist and posted a note stating that she was not caught in front of the window, hoping that tonight's photo could be changed. So last night I will receive the reminder and settle everything.
When the male protagonist was drawing, he suddenly thought that he had never painted this stuff before. Why did he paint exactly the same as in the photo? So he understood that they hadn't changed the direction of things. Any change in the future was bullshit, and it was impossible. Looking at his crazy girlfriend, he just wanted to destroy the harmful machine. But the hostess killed him, and she self-righteously posted the note that she was destined to fall and was caught in front of the window. Finally, the note fell off, and everything was as it was originally set up.

The only thing I can't figure out is why Mr. B's daytime photo of murder day is different from the one taken the night before the hostess's murder. But if it is understood that Mr. B's daytime photo was not taken at 8 o'clock, but at the time after the hostess was captured by the police. Everything is reasonable.

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Time Lapse quotes

  • Callie: [reading from Bezzerides' journal] I know the rule of time and causality is that one should not attempt to change the future. But under these circumstances, it seems to be a risk worth taking. If I believed in God, I would pray today that no greater harm will come from what I am about to do.

  • Jasper: Don't fuck with time.