If the killer's hand was blown off by Quaid 30 years earlier, why is his hand shrivelling up and disappearing only 30 years after it gets blown off? Shouldn't he have no hand for the last 30 years?
shareIt's like the cigarette burn on the desk; John sees it changing because up until that point in his personal history the killer hadn't been caught.
I think there's a certain kind of ripple effect that those within range of the focal point, the family's transistor radio in the case of Frequency, are partially immune to and thus retain some of their original memories and/or notice the changing effects around them. Think kinda like the scene in Butterfly Effect when the Kutcher character goes back in time with a prison inmate holding on to him, intent on proving a point to him by creating scars on his hands via impaling them in the distant past, the inmate is able to immune past the ripple effect when in contact with him during this and recall he didn't have these scars before. That seems to be the same idea shown in Frequency as far as I can tell.
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Because even though it happened 30 years ago, the past changed right at that moment. Before that moment, he wasn't shot in the hand in the past. The killer never went into Quaid's house before that. It took changing the events in the past to lead to that moment. Like Quaid going to the police station and knowing who the killer was and the killer knowing where he lived for that to happen.
shareWhat about when the past is changed and Caviezel has the memories of the new past? So his hand should've been "always" gone.
shareNo. The killer had his hand in the bar. His right hand. The director makes sure we see it. That is what sends the 1999 killer to johns house.
John talking to him the bar sets it all in motion.
In 1969 the killer showsup on the same night. He didnt drown and his hand is fine. So when frank shoots his hand off in 1969 its gone in a flash. That is why his hand doesnt disappear in 1999 til the past changes.
I think this should be easy to understand.
No. The killer had his hand in the bar. His right hand. The director makes sure we see it. That is what sends the 1999 killer to johns house.
In 1969 the killer showsup on the same night. He didnt drown and his hand is fine. So when frank shoots his hand off in 1969 its gone in a flash. That is why his hand doesnt disappear in 1999 til the past changes.
I think this should be easy to understand.
The sounds on the radio are still manipulating the events as they are effecting what's happening in the past at the same time as the future.
shareThe killer's hand disappears because he is attacking the father at the same time he is wrestling with the son. It happens simultaneously because as the father shoots the killer's hand, the son is hitting him thirty years later. Time has folded onto itself just as it did when the father was carving "I'm still here chief" in the desk and John was seeing it appear.
shareIt was a bit of film fantasy. If his hand had been blown off 30 years earlier, it would have been missing for the entire film.
shareIt was a bit of film fantasy. If his hand had been blown off 30 years earlier, it would have been missing for the entire film.
Because past and present were happening at the same time.
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Good question. I have one about the father saving the son in the future. How was he in the house so fast? He had to get the memories of his past as they were happening, and get to his son's house. But for your question, after reading the posts, I think it's timing. The same day, same time in the film's universe.
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I have one about the father saving the son in the future. How was he in the house so fast? He had to get the memories of his past as they were happening, and get to his son's house. But for your question, after reading the posts, I think it's timing. The same day, same time in the film's universe.
I think they explained more women died, I think (I need to watch again). As for the hand, since he lost it in the new past, (him going to Frank's home, instead of dying at the hospital, since Frank's wife was working and saved him. She was working because Frank didn't die, and she was not called away from work, or she went to work, instead of being home and getting the call about Frank). He lost the hand at the same time 30 years later.
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Shouldn't he have no hand for the last 30 years?
Why does the killer's hand disappear 30 yrs later?