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The real flaw as I see it.

posted 8 years ago by kittykat_charm
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SPOILERS... duh. Not gonna black out anything cause - effort.

Okay so I see a lot of people talking about thinks that aren't plot holes but either these people not understanding the time travel logic in the film or picking at moronic character choices that aren't flaws but just idiotic characters. I've seen one other good point that I thought too about how illogical it was for the bookie to risk being caught shoving a gun in the kids faces if he really believed they'd involved the police but yeah whatever.

My main flaw in the logic of this film is that Finn sees the fake picture change and then looks at the coil photo that Mr B got in advance and his decision is that because the coil didn't change then no photos could change. Problem with that being that he made the active decision to paint the coil again to save himself which surely would have made the picture not change had pictures been able to change for real... if you get my drift. Yes, it ended up being a hoax and good on him for being able to figure it out, however with the way that he had been understanding time travel for the rest of the film there was no real logical AHA! moment other than the fact the script called for it to be an AHA moment for the twist to be revealed.

[–] carl_johnson-1 8 years ago

Callie shows him the photo of the police-taped apartment, declaring "yay, we changed things!", but Finn looks at Mr. B's coil photo and realizes that it also should also have changed: where's the police tape? This is where Finn realizes that since the coil photo didn't change, nothing changed at all. So he has a look at what Callie is up to.

[–] kittykat_charm 8 years ago

But that's my point. The coil photo wouldn't have changed because it never had police tape in it in the first place. As soon as he made the decision to paint the coil again the fate was sealed so even if the photos COULD change (which we in hindsight know they can't) then it wouldn't have changed.

[–] carl_johnson-1 8 years ago

I see where you're going with it, but I think you need to take it one more step.

If Finn thinks photos can change, then he'd have to think that Mr. B's photo should also have changed. It didn't. So this leads him to think no photos actually changed. Here, we see he's right.

Now if the photo had "changed" (Callie switched Mr. B's too), then proceeding to paint the coil, could cause Mr. B's photo to change back (and perhaps the police tape photo). So, yeah, he wouldn't need to do it.

But he still held Mr. B's unchanged photo in his hand. There's no scenario in Finn's mind where the police tape photo changes but Mr. B's doesn't. Either they both change or neither does. I have to agree with him there.

[–] jjgator84 8 years ago

They should have just played Powerball. Movie over.

[–] seanafields 8 years ago

Assuming the story takes place in the western US, they wouldn't be able to win the Powerball because of the timing (the Powerball drawing is at 8:00pm Pacific Time, so they wouldn't have the numbers in time to put them in the window until the next evening, which means they wouldn't get the photo with the numbers until 8:00pm on the day of the drawing, which is too late to buy tickets). Even Mountain Time wouldn't work, because they stop selling tickets an hour before the drawing. If they're in the Central or Eastern time zones, they could have an hour or two to buy tickets.

If they're farther west, like Alaska or Hawaii, they'd have all day to buy tickets.

There are presumably other lotteries with different draw times, however, so the general idea that it would be better to play a lottery than bet on races still stands.

Although I'm not sure why that'd make the "movie over." Jasper was the only one using the camera to make money - Callie was using it to rekindle her relationship with Finn and Finn was using it to rekindle his painting, so they wouldn't necessarily stop just because they won the lottery.

[–] ttdoggie5 8 years ago

Can't you bet on dogs legally like with horses? Bam skip Ivan.