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While the PI is asking about the money and accusing Tom, the camera view is close in on each of them in turn, making it seem like a confined space. Behind the PI is a blank surface with a pattern of intense light and shadow as if cast by sunlight streaming down through the bars of a prison window.
When they first sit down and afterwards, the camera view is much wider and changes to over-the-shoulder shots. You can see that they are in a very large room, there is no blank surface behind the PI, and there is no source of light that would have cast those shadows.
Calum planning to kill himself doesn't seem to really jibe with him telling Sophie that she can always confide in him, or with him getting upset about the dropped mask and attempting to dive after it. He was suicidal, but not in the sense of actively killing himself. Instead, he seemed to no longer care whether he lived or died, tempting fate by standing on the balcony railing and by crossing the street without looking (not even when the oncoming bus honked at him). My guess is that he died "accidentally" due to complete disregard for his own safety.
I took the rave scenes as a dream Sophie had, because the scene of her sitting up in bed immediately followed one of the rave sequences. Unlike the other rave scenes, that one was accompanied by the sound of panicky breathing. One of the last memories she had of her dad was of dancing together, and he had previously told her that he loved to dance.
In Sophie's dream he was wearing the same clothes as at the airport, suggesting that was the last time she saw him, but I don't think he necessarily died in Turkey. If he hadn't died, they might not have seen each other again until her Christmas break, so I think he could have died weeks or months following the trip.
Calum was reckless with his life at times, such as standing on the balcony railing and crossing the street without looking, right in front of a bus. My hunch is that he did not actively take his own life but instead tempted fate once too often.
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