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My only question (spoilers)

posted 3 years ago by kameeleoned_out (60)
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I don’t care about the temporal inconsistencies, if you’re aiming to create a flawless time travel movie you’ll end up with Primer (2004) and that’s it.

A fun movie like The Call doesn’t need that perfection. But it does need internal logic. And it has it, except for one moment which I hope someone can enlighten for me. At the very end, during the credits twist, how did present day killer know to warn past killer of the policeman’s visit with the mother? She didn’t have access to the notebook because it was in daughter’s posession. And she couldn’t have remembered the timeline as a memory, because we know the daughter didn’t retain memories during reality morphs.

Maybe killer retained her memories because she actually lived life to get to the present, as opposed to the daughter who seemed disconnected from her past? That would be weird because she’s a product of reality morphs just like the daughter.

Anyone got a theory?

[–] mr159 (136) 3 years ago

i dont remember the movie well but grandfather paradox aside, there were inconsistencies with the internal logic as well. When the strawberry farmer is killed, a new timeline is created. Not a timeline that is yet to be determined based on actions from 1999 onwards, but a fully formed timeline of pre-determined events. We know this because there are records in the police station of the serial killer being arrested, even though that is yet to happen to the girl in 1999.

But after that, the movie treats timelines as changing in real time. The dad dies in 2019 only when the girl stabs him in 1999. Similarly with the torture of the 1999 version of the heroine, and the entire brawl in the final act. Also, how is it that the heroine finds herself in the same house in every timeline, even the one where both her parents are killed.

Maybe there's an explanation, i can't remember a lot of the details

I didn't bother to really think about the credit scene, it just seemed like one of those Friday the 13th type twists that don't really make sense. I had way too many other issues with the movie.