So, is it Finn who puts everything in motion?

I was confused about this. If the picture is showing you what you will be doing, why would you have to create it. Wouldn't you be doing it already? If doing something different than the picture shows screws up time then wouldn't using time to create a reality for you also screw up time?

OK so what I am saying is this:

Finn couldn't think of anything to paint until the picture showed it to him. How come in the picture he always has a picture painted but without the photograph he is having a block? This was their own selves being shown 24 hours in advance so without seeing the picture it means Finn would have been painting that same picture. They were doing what the camera showed prior to finding the camera but all of a sudden Finn relied on the picture to show him what to draw. The camera was not a what if or you can do camera it was a 24 hour in the advance picture of what you will do.

I don't understand if the pictures are future how she could hang a note today, see the picture, and then erase the past. What happened cannot be changed only the future can now be altered (like the finally winning the bets they placed). They kept repeating you don't !@#$ with time, except they were doing just that. They were using the camera to their advantage to gain financially, that does not change they were broke prior to finding the camera so how would a note change the past?

In this way, the movie is actually clever in that Finn has another reason to paint the green coil: to get Mr. B in the storeroom so he can use his key to escape.

Sure, if things could be changed, there'd be other ways out of it. Anything that would prevent Mr. B's pic from coming true would unwind everything back to when Mr. B got that pic. He'd still be alive and the kids would never know about the camera.

So, Finn dumping water on the camera would have also done it, since the Mr. B photo wouldn't be taken at all. Cleaning the blood off the window, or moving Mr. B's hat out of frame could have done it too.

But nothing can change. This is a fixed timeline film.

it was Finn who set things in motion by drawing the coil, so Mr. B reconizes the coils and goes looking for it and dies...

the thing that bugs me is that the girl figures it out, she can change the past by changing the message in the picture and never actually tries to fix anything!!! all she does with that knowledge is send herself messages to win Finn back or reignite their relationship, even when Jasper has gone psycho on them!!! nevermind he killed 2 dudes! she is mad because Finn wants to paint!!!

One would think that while at the start the only "weird" thing was the bets and stuff, during that time she could have done the whole "win Finn back" routine... but c'mon after the other dude kills 3 people?? she could have gone and reset things by changing anything in the picture and she doesnt !!!

that to me makes no sense at all...