It could have been a masterpiece - spoilers!

I love the way this movie started. Very intriguing and moody, but all of a sudden the writer(s) messed up. They really could have taken the story anywhere. Even if they wanted make it the story of a man who is already dead and tries to change things, they still could have told it differently, so that it makes sense. Some scenes were just thrown in to confuse the audience and that wouldn't have been necessary at all. The movie started out well enough.

Here are some major problems for me:

1) Is Simon able to change events, ie where there two versions of the first accident? One where only Peter dies, because Simon drives to the cliffs first and never crashes with Claire and one where all 3 of them die? At least that would explain why Simon has all these crude visions of the time up until 2002. You know, Anna blackmailing him into marriage, him getting poisoned and all that. Why else would he come up with this kind of stories for himself? Why choose 2002 as the time to come back. Just because the time of his death was 20:02? That doesn't make to much sense, does it?

2) Who was that doctor following him around all the time???

3) Why does Claire - who apparently died just as Peter did - appear now and then, while Peter is dead even in Simon's mind?

4) Why does Simon somtimes enter his own body in the future, and why does he sometimes just stand aside and watch the events as a third person?

5) Why did he make his father doctor Newman in his mind?


For me, the whole movie fell apart as soon as Simon didn't just go back and forth between 2000 and 2002, but all of a sudden went to points in time that came before his first stay at the hospital, ie the confrontation between him and Peter.

I didn't hate the movie, I just thought it was a pity that it didn't turn out as great as it could have been.

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