Selfish Traveler + Logic Breakdown

Keven 2022-03-21 09:01:22

Compared with the pseudo-science series of "Stones of Destiny", it clearly fell behind.
On what basis do you decide who will live and who will die.
The answer of the protagonist of the film is: people I know live, people I don't know can die.

The protagonist saves his sister's life, but the daughter he knows becomes a strange son. For this reason, he does not hesitate to ruin his sister's life again so that the daughter he knows can return. Who cares about the feelings of the obliterated son?

On the eve of the protagonist’s wife giving birth to a third child, the protagonist returned to the past for the last time to satisfy his desire to see his father, but in fact, the time travel at this time will still affect the third child, because the sperm-egg combination of the third child has already been determined It happened. Why did the protagonist use this time as the last opportunity to see his father? Because he was calculated based on the time when the child was born and he saw the child. As long as he saw it and developed feelings, how did the child in his wife’s belly change? He doesn't care.

Of course, although it is not the point, the logic of the film is completely rubbish. The protagonist should return to the past, and he should return to his body in the past like the gate of Destiny Stone. However, to complete this process, it must be done in a dark environment. This led to the collapse of logic. The first time the protagonist went back to the past was to return to the party. The problem was that he had never been to the closet at that party, so there was a taboo of not taking care of this time travel before and after. People send out brain signals, but without people in the past receiving signals, brainwave travel is impossible. It would be more logical if the protagonist does not appear in the closet after returning to the past, but if the past person suddenly awakens and gains the consciousness of the future person like in the Gate of Destiny Stones.

From the film, after the protagonist returns to the past, there are two more choices, one is to live again from then, and the other is to travel back to the future. Since there is the first item, then the Sky Traveler has the ability to live forever. If there are no multiple world lines, then he has the ability to stop the operation of the whole world... Logic continues to collapse, it is horrible, nothing to mention. .

The movie itself feels rather messy. It talks about several different events around the protagonist's abilities, so it lacks cohesion, and it is just light prose no matter how you look at it.

However, it is strongly recommended to watch the opening paragraph again after watching the movie, and you will have a different feeling.

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About Time quotes

  • [Tim and Mary are in bed]

    Mary: So not such a bad day after all?

    Tim: No. It was pretty good, really. Very good day, actually, as it turns out.

    Mary: Well, that's a relief. Because it had been a very bad day, I thought I might have had to have had sex with you to make up for it.

    [she turns the light out]

    Mary: Goodnight.

    Tim: [he is lying blatantly and Mary knows it] It was a very, very bad day. It went very badly. I got fired from my job. And then I killed a man.

    [she turns the light back on]

    Mary: That is a very bad day.

    Tim: It's terrible.

    Mary: Yeah, the worst day ever. I'm so sorry.

    [they start to make love]

  • [Mary wants another baby]

    Mary: I just thought that maybe it was time for the insurance baby.

    Tim: What?

    Mary: In case one of them is really smart. We don't want the other one to feel stupid their whole life. And if we had a third one then we could have *two* happy dummies. What do you think?

    [Tim realises that once another baby is born, he will never be able to go back to a time before that]

    Tim: [voiceover] It was the toughest decision of my life. Saying "yes" to the future meant saying "goodbye" to my dad - forever.