There was a lot of controversy in the film review and discussion area, but many of them actually have reasonable explanations in the electronic music.
1. Are Bourdain and Fren twins or clones?
Bourdain and Fren are not clones because they are sure that Angel doesn't have a twin brother, so they don't know how Angel did it. They were forced to tell Angel the so-called "secret" to go to Tesla, but they were actually teasing him, because Tesla was a well-known mad scientist at the time, and Angel, who didn't know that Bourdain had a twin brother, believed it was the only one possible.
2. Bourdain's character question: Should he be responsible for Angel's wife's death?
Responsibility is a moral and legal issue, but in the film it was an accident. First of all, this is not a dead knot. Carter's warning is that this kind of knot will swell with water and it will be difficult to untie it; when the knot is tied again, Bourdain/Fron does not know this problem, because the last time Carter warned it was Fren/Bourden; Angel's wife had said she wanted to challenge the knot, so she made eye contact with Bourdon/Fron at the last knot and agreed to it; at the funeral Fron/Borden said she didn't know what to tie , because he really didn't know, because it wasn't him who tied the knot.
3. Why doesn't Tesla make fortunes with replicators?
What Tesla wants to build is a teleporter (historically, Tesla has always wanted to achieve wireless transmission of power, some people say he achieved it, and think the Tunguska explosion is his masterpiece), and the hat is still there, so he thinks the experiment failed . It wasn't until Angel discovered the cat and the hat that Tesla realized he had built a replicator. And Tesla in the movie has three positive views and strong ethics. He believes that this machine will affect people's minds, so he will destroy it after explaining that Angel achieves his goal (in return for financial assistance). And he obviously wouldn't take advantage of the machine himself.
4. Did Angel or clones die every time?
In fact, whether the replicator transmitted the replicator or the body was not clearly explained in the movie, but at the end of the movie, Angel himself said that he had to bear the fear of not knowing whether he would be drowned by water or be teleported to the other end every time. But obviously he is ready to sacrifice (the key word of the film). And he believed that people didn't suffer after drowning, but felt like coming home, as Carter said when he comforted him after his wife died. However, after Carter knew the truth, he told Angel that he had lied, which made Angel very stunned, thinking that every time he died, it was so painful.
5. Why did Angel have to "suicide"?
First of all, he wants to frame Bourdain by "suicide". In addition, the previous stand-ins also paved the way for this, and Angel is a person with status, which will bring a series of problems. Angel also can't imagine the life (sacrifice for magic) of Bourdain and Fran. Maybe it's better to use the original stand-in (this is the ending I guessed before watching the movie), so that you can both eliminate this person and frame Bourdain, but there is a problem with this: Angel doesn't know when Bourdain is going to disrupt the situation, and The water tank, as explained in the movie, is difficult to move. So at first glance, the introduction of sci-fi elements into this film is a failure, but after careful analysis of the plot, it makes sense.
6. Did the child's father or the child's uncle die?
It was the uncle, who mentioned guilt for Sarah's death when he said goodbye to his brother.
7. Why did Carter help Bourdain in the end?
Because Carter finally knew that Angel was using himself to frame Bourdain, and knew that Bourdain was not setting up a water tank to kill Angel or seeing death. He also knew that the machine was not a transfer but a clone, so he also knew how many himself Angel had killed. He saw Angel go from a magician who didn't want to kill to a crazy person who wanted to kill people and tear apart father and daughter.
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