Just saw it, take a ways/thoughts/ questions

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So I just saw it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Saw a few posts and thought I'd chime in with my 2 cents.

- I don't think it was so much about 'time travel' as no beginning or end. My take a way was that she could project her concious through her life and relive moments at the least. But for me to accept that I thought of it as multiple 'times'.

Biggest instance would be the Chinese General Chang, she had no recollection of talking to him or that story, but if she never talked to him then they wouldnt be there. So what if it was not only time being able to be perceived at whatever point but also that of branching paths. The General at what looked like a gala for her book was making the point about not being able to understand the way her mind works and that it would seem she needed the phone number and his wife's words.

I think that the being able to access the branching path experiences work at that scene in another way. It has been 18 months since the incident but she is neither pregnant or with Renner. I would think being such a language expert and college professor she would be early to mid 30s. So maybe a year to be with the guy and then be around 6 months pregnant at the gala and still be with him. Thereby making another branch where she choose not to have a child that would live too short of a life, but if she doesn't have a kid than she wouldn't have those experiences to draw from with the alien.

- I saw some say that the alien's gift was a curse but I disagree. If you could percieve all of your time in any fashion, than you don't have to relive your most painful moments if you dont want to. Instead you could focus on the beautiful parts, like she would be able to hold her child for the first time whenever she wanted. Even still, those terrible moments you could relive have a silver lining. There is a sort of beauty in pain. For instance, I am nearly 30 and had a childhood wrought with physical and sexual abuse and it torments me all the time. Had none of that happened or had I taken my life I wouldn't be with my wife for nearly 10 years who brings my life such wonder and joy. Does it mean I would relive those *beep* moments of my life, no, but rather re-enjoy the ones with her however often I could until we have kids and then relive those.

- But even if I am over analyzing everything and she does end up having a kid who has such a rare disease, who's to say that's it? Beyond being able to percieve time however, maybe theres something more in death. Maybe they can relive their existence after life. The other alien didn't seem to be volatile or have any signs of resignation when she talked to it. I think it said something about Costello's death was being prepared.

Or I am just an idiot and took too much from a movie, but I am having fun mulling over the endless interpretations.

Sorry for the walls of text, I tried to break it up within reason. Did I miss plot points in the movie that would invalidate what I wrote? Or maybe some ideas to bounce around? I'd love to know.