The most detailed plot analysis [with spoilers]

Michael 2022-12-04 06:15:58

First of all, let’s talk about the core logic of time-travel-themed film and television, that is: if time-travel occurs and goes back to the past, can it change the established history?

In the middle of the movie, the male protagonist and others discussed this issue in the "Investigation House", and they gave two arguments :

1. The long-haired male scientist said that if you can travel back, then the current world is the world that you have traveled back and did everything you can, and finally formed. That is, no matter what you do, you cannot change the established history, and everything you do is destined to lead to the established history;

2. The crying female scientist said that if you can travel back, what you do will lead to another new branch of the world line, which is what we often call a parallel universe. As for the old world, there will be two situations. One is to be in parallel with the new world without any influence, and the other is that when you change the past, the world that you have not yet crossed will be erased and replaced, that is, there will always be only one world line. Starting from this theory, you can change the established history by traveling, but it is unknown whether the world you are in when you are not traveling will be affected.

Under the premise of knowing the above two traversal logics, we start the story in the movie, which is called story B for the time being:

Story B:

The cruise ship left the shore, and the little girl's doll fell into the water. Everyone celebrated. At 10:48, the staff watching the parking platform suddenly heard the radio of a certain car start. At the same time, the cruise ship approached the bridge and gave the motorcycle men who were watching on the bridge. There were not enough motorcycle men. Durable soon left on a motorcycle. The staff found the radio car, found that the car had no license plate, and looked in from the rear window to see a bomb, Boom! The cruise ship exploded.

The male protagonist checked the crime scene, and when he walked to the pile of corpses, he heard a mobile phone ringing . He took out his mobile phone and found that his mobile phone was not ringing. He looked at the corpse affectionately and decided not to disturb the deceased.

In the footage of salvaging the body in the rain, a staff member wearing a photographic helmet is looking over there.

The male protagonist investigates under the bridge and meets the FBI glasses man, and is about to start his journey through the bridge.

The male protagonist returned to the office, and Xiao Pang, who helped him adjust the video, asked him if "that girl" called you, and then he called "that girl" according to the number recorded by Xiao Pang on the candy wrapper and left a message. Immediately afterwards, the male protagonist discovered the motorcycle man in the video, and the time was 10.47 minutes.

The male protagonist received a call from the sheriff on the tram saying that a burnt female body was found, and a child reported the case with a score of 10.42. The male protagonist of the morgue saw that the female corpse in the red floral dress was missing an ear stud and her fingers were cut off , but the dead perverted male protagonist stared at the female corpse and said that the female donor is so beautiful~~~

According to the information from the forensic doctor, the male lead learned that the female donor's name was Claire, and then came to Claire's father's house to investigate, and learned that Claire wanted to sell a car. There was a former fiancé in Montreal. Before leaving, Claire's father gave the hero a picture of Claire.

The male protagonist came to Claire's house and put on gloves before entering the door . He saw "U CAN SAVE HER" and a car sales advertisement on the magnetic sticker at the door, and then found all kinds of bandages, bloodstains and blue dresses. I went to the bedroom and listened to the recording of the phone call. There was a conversation with Beth. Claire asked Beth, " Is this a joke? " Then she said " there is someone next to you" and hung up. Then the male protagonist heard his message . The master listens back not only with gloves but also with a pen to click on the keys.

The male protagonist came to the FBI investigation team, met the man with glasses again, and met a new long-haired man. Through the narrative, he told that someone killed Claire and pretended to be Claire. He was also killed in an explosion accident. Before leaving, the male protagonist saw his partner's car and learned that his partner was killed on the cruise ship. After the male protagonist left, the head of the FBI asked the man with glasses to find the male protagonist to join the team.

The man with glasses pulled the protagonist to join the team and came to the "Crossing Base". The team informed the protagonist that the new technology was satellite surveillance, but the protagonist asked where the voice came from, and no one gave an explanation. At the same time, the male protagonist was told that he could only look back at the world 4 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds, 14.5 nanoseconds at one time, and could not look back a second time, which is equivalent to -4 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds, 14.5 nanoseconds in the monitoring Live broadcast .

During the group watching Claire's live broadcast 4 and a half days ago, the male lead colleague called to say that while investigating Claire's house, he found his fingerprints all over the house . Later, the female lead felt that someone was watching her while she was taking a shower . The male lead asked the long-haired man and the glasses man, Claire, whether they could detect them. They both had an ambiguous attitude. Claire wrote a diary saying she felt being watched.

When attending Claire's funeral, the protagonist noticed a strange man staring at him, and then mixed in with several drivers. The protagonist thought this was a criminal.

Going back to the group to continue watching the live broadcast, Claire received a phone call at the reception. The ringtone was exactly the one the male protagonist heard at the death scene at the beginning. The male protagonist believed that the caller was a terrorist. The man with glasses asked people to wear a widening equipment (here is a lens of the widening equipment, which is the helmet of the staff who "wears a camera helmet" at the beginning of the movie) to call the phone booth, the male protagonist is confused, what TM is a widening equipment , was told it was a data-gathering device. The team found out from the phone booth video and handbag comparison that the terrorist appeared two days ago, that is, 7 hours after the female host's live broadcast at the ship attacked the dock. The team decided to find out who the terrorist was 7 hours later.

The boring time is always short. During the 7 hours, the male protagonist used a laser pointer to shoot the female protagonist in the live broadcast, and the female protagonist saw it ! And then a series of failures occurred. Finally, the group confessed to the male lead that "Crossing the Base" is actually a piece of equipment connected to the past. What they can do now is to look at the world in the past 4 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds and 14.5 nanoseconds, because light can pass through them. The "bridge" is reflected back. The male protagonist said that since light has energy, so can I. Lord is light! (No no, just kidding)

The last quarrel decided to send a note to the past male lead, but the past male lead did not receive it, but the male lead partner received it, so the male lead partner received the lunch on the live broadcast, but also saw the true face of the terrorist. The male protagonist began to put on the expansion equipment to perform speed and passion, chasing him all the way to the wild hut. What the male protagonist saw was an ambulance crashing into the house, and it seemed that an explosion had occurred; the live broadcast showed that everything was intact. The male lead partner was then executed. The male protagonist found an ear stud in the destroyed house , oh! What a coincidence! Matches perfectly with the earrings on Claire's body!

Then the criminals were successfully matched and the arrest was completed. The male protagonist started the interrogation. The interrogation reached the place where the criminals arrested Claire. The criminals said that you already knew what happened next. Then the criminal was forced to start talking about his theory of fate, and said that my theory of fate can be used in the future (here I think the criminal thought that the male protagonist played some tricks, so he told the male protagonist that you are doomed to fail).

The male protagonist was kicked out of the group and returned to Claire's house. When he saw the phrase " U CAN SAVE HER " again, the male protagonist woke up and decided to travel. The long-haired man said "You don't have to do this" before the male protagonist crossed over, and the male protagonist replied " What if I already have ?" to him, proving that the male protagonist actually realized that this world is the one he has already crossed over. Before leaving, we knew the exact time of the explosion from the long-haired man at 10.50 minutes.

The male protagonist crosses, wakes up, rescues the ambulance, hits the house, the criminal blows up the house, the male protagonist rescues Claire, returns to Claire's house, changes the magnetic sticker, treats the wound, tells Claire not to wear a red dress instead of a blue dress, Claire calls ATF Xiaopang confirms the male protagonist, here Xiaopang did not write down Claire's phone number on the candy paper or that Xiaopang wrote it on the white side of the candy paper instead of the patterned surface, and finally Claire received a call from Beth (during this period, you can see, Claire is missing an ear stud).

All of this seems to be the same as the original world, but it is slightly different in Xiaopang, so the story orientation has also changed (butterfly effect).

In the end, the male protagonist and the female protagonist lifted the bomb crisis and killed the criminal, but the male protagonist was killed. However, the male protagonist C of this world arrives and meets Claire, and story B ends (during the period, the male protagonist confirmed at 10.47 points whether the motorcycle man , the criminal, went to the bridge, but found that he did not. It also proves that the male protagonist triggered a new story and changed the the world line).

From the details of Story B, we can infer that before Story A, the male protagonist actually had a time-travel, but he failed , and both he and Claire died, so what is this story like? This goes to the story before story B - story A.

Story A:

Male protagonist A travels to the world of story B, drives an ambulance and hits the house, the criminal blows up the house, male protagonist A rescues Claire A, and goes to Claire A's house to change the magnetic stickers and bandage the wound, so there is Claire in story B. earrings , magnetic stickers , bandages from Claire's family , a girl's phone number recorded by Xiaopang asking about the male lead , Beth's phone call record , male lead B was told by colleagues that Claire's family was full of his fingerprints . Then they failed, so with Claire's finger cut off and the ringing of Claire's phone on the body , when the male protagonist B interrogated the criminal, the criminal said that you will know it later .

Then since the male protagonist A in story A crosses, there should be a former love story Zero , which will lead to the crossing of male protagonist A in story A, then the story Zero is the most primitive world line:

Story Z:

The male protagonist A didn’t know anything. The criminal blew up the cruise ship, and Claire was killed.

In this way, we can sort out the overall timeline, so go back to the beginning of the article:

What is the logic of this movie crossing? Obviously it is the crossing logic given by the crying girl, that is: what you do after crossing back will form a new world line.

So how does this world line interact with the old one? The law of crossing in the movie is covering effect, that is, it directly affects the subsequent world line, because Claire in world B meets the male protagonist C who has not crossed in world B, and generates new stories that continue to affect this world.

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