Building a loop in time?
I can't remember much about the movie now, but what if...
Ethan Hawke's character was actually building a loop in time, but it looks like a paradox from our perspective since we are seeing it as our past and assuming it all happened as an integrated whole?
Originally we have a straight line:
1) No Fizzle Bomber
2) Fizzle Bomber appears
3) Fizzle Bomber kills people
4) Fizzle Bomber retires and is at the laundry mat.
Then Hawke goes back in time, at step 3.1:
1) No Fizzle Bomber
2) Fizzle Bomber appears
3) Fizzle Bomber kills people
3.1) Hawke enters the time line and begins work
4) Fizzle Bomber retires and is at the laundry mat.
So what the movie is about, is how he builds a loop by going back to step 3.1 and doing stuff piece by piece and then he can finally kill the Fizzle Bomber at step 4. So at the end of the movie it looks like this:
Then Hawke goes back in time, and begins to build the loop:
1) No Fizzle Bomber
2) Fizzle Bomber appears
3) Fizzle Bomber kills people
3.1) Hawke enters the time line and begins work
3.2) He gets a sex change
3.3) He falls in love with his female self
3.3) They have a baby
3.4) He moves the baby
3.5) Etc.
4) Fizzle Bomber retires and is at the laundry mat, but now he can kill him.
So from one point of view it looks like a paradox, but from a "let's build a loop" point of view, it looks like in sequence.
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