Although I liked the premise of the movie, there were several inconsistencies that I am currently having problems with:
Spoiler:
1. How is it that the guy that Kutcher was in prison with actually saw the wounds on his hands appear when he went back in time and impaled them in the classroom? They should have been on his hands from the time he was thrown into prison. Which leads me into #2...2. Why is it that the wounds on his hands were the ONLY thing that changed when he went back and injured them? You would think things should have changed dramatically since the course of history was altered.
3. Why wasn't his ability to go back in time better explained in the movie? Aside from slight references to his father, and the one prison visit, they really never went into that. Would have been nice to have that discussed.
Not sure if these were discussed earlier, but I do find them to be rather gaping plot holes.
#2- actually he probably would have been sent to see the same Doctor to try to figure out his problem.
#3- How could they better explain it? Evan didnt even know really what he was doing, but all that was important was he could project his mind into his younger self and change his actions, I wouldnt even call it time travel, more of a possesion. When he projects back into the basement to stop Haley from being molested, He starts to speak like an adult and even the dad asks "Who are you?" as if even wasnt himself.
It's Kayleigh, not Hayley. And the reason why nothing changed when he injured his hands was probably because it was only him that was effected by it, nobody else so things didn't change. Why the guy didn't seem them when he was first in prison was probably because this is a different way of time-taveling.
Originally posted by BlackC@t
It's Kayleigh, not Hayley. And the reason why nothing changed when he injured his hands was probably because it was only him that was effected by it, nobody else so things didn't change. Why the guy didn't seem them when he was first in prison was probably because this is a different way of time-taveling.
I would think that watching one of your students impaling both hands on a sharp object would have quite a traumatizing effect on a teacher as opposed to it never happening in the first place. The slightest alteration can cause a whole sequence of events to change. That's the whole premise of the butterfly effect... that even the simplest of events can have the most significant of consequences. The Merovignian would have a field day with this...
As for your time travelling rationale, that seems a little weak. Evan had the ability to go back... not the other prisoner. So his prison mate would have no recollection of Evan's having gone back since all the events leading up to it would have changed accordingly.
Originally posted by Stormy Day
Well he was in a mental institution when the marks appeared 😛
Hel-lo... you're not following logic here. The marks would not just magically appear. They would have been there well before the time that he even showed up at the institution (provided that he still was in the institution after changing the course of history by impaling his hands in the first place).
And by the way,
Spoiler:
he was in prison, not a mental institution. That happened later.
An awsome movie! it wasn't just about those things you know, it's about living with the choices we make in life and that we should think before we act. The movie was brilliant, we didn't actually see the dog get burnt and there wasn't any rape in the film. Just child porn and paedophiles 😄
Does anyone know what kind of journals Evan used in the film? like the brand and stuff?
Originally posted by <<Solo>>
It ripped off Donnie Darko, big time.
I don't know I it was mentioned here but a friend saw it at the movies and the ending was different to the DVD I have. The theater version ending wasn't even in the deleted alternate endings section on the DVD.
I liked the movie though.