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Problem with the solution, and Spoilers


Here's my question. Please help me out. Tell me if I'm missing something.
So Callie thinks that she can erase what just happened, the death of Finn, by sending herself a message from 8 AM the next day, back to her "present" day, at 8 AM when she killed Finn. But she didn't get a chance to get the photo. Finn caught her taking a photo at 8 AM. Then, about 5 minutes later, he's dead. She didn't go over there to get it. So how was she supposed to receive the message? Even if her plan would have worked, and time could be changed, how could she have gotten the message?

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She was setting up for that night's 8pm photo so that the Callie from last night's 8pm would get the photo. That Callie had gotten the police tape photo, so if it was the "don't get caught at the window" picture instead, she'd have avoided the events from that morning's 8am on when Finn caught her at the window.

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Ah... Got it. I wonder why she didn't clean the blood, then? It makes an impact.

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She probably figured it would all go away when the timeline resets anyway. Much like how she just let Joe into the apartment to see the dead bodies.

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Yeah but timelines don't reset. If she's altering a different timeline, she's not going to experience it. I feel like I'm missing something with this movie.

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Seems they just go sort of insane after popping those red pills, should have taken blue ones instead.

Dont be sad for people they will all die

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There is evidence that the timelines change because she was changing them the whole time. When she first sees the machine, she sees a picture telling her to get rid of the day time ones showing her and finn. She didn't know why it said that but did it anyways. Well, the reason why it said that is during the first timeline she must not have removed them and ran to get the others and Jasper saw them and freaked out. So she left herself the message to make sure he didn't find them. Otherwise, how would her future self know to tell her past self that those photos were there and what to hide? She them built the timeline by trying things out and sending messages back to herself in the past to ensure that things worked out how she wanted, probably through trial and error. So she was altering the timeline at least once at the beginning of the movie and likely multiple times as she tried to win Jasper back. This either means you can change the past, there are multiple timelines or that time is a constant without a past or future and these things just happened because that's how they happened. Take your pick but either way, from her point of view she was changing how things were happening which is why she put up the last note in an attempt to change the past one more time. This is not a consistency from her point of view.

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I was thinking it might be something like that until the end. When the last note falls, the director is alerting us to the fact that the photo is going to be just as it printed.

She thought she was changing things with her notes but she really wasn't. She was just letting heralded know what she was going to do and was perhaps worried her past self might make a different decisions upon seeing the new photos so was writing the notes like any of us write a reminder of something. We already know we are going to do.

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The movies logic of time is not the multiple worlds theory everybody is so hung up on, it's dealing with a consistent timestream that can be altered, thereby creating multiple loops. We only saw everydays last loop, the timeline as it stuck, so to speak. She was seemingly aware of that, given her personal future messages and how she used them. The others however, at least in the final timeline, did not know that, so the story still progressed so badly because of her bad judgement, wich isn't to hard to belive since she banged her roommate while her boyfriend was laying right there on the couch.
The timetravel-logic used is the same as in the movie "Next" just without them remembering making the change or the Star Trek TNG Episode "Cause and Effect" only with them triggering the loop themselfes.

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I don't think there is any evidence the time stream can be altered. In fact the evidence points to the opposite.

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Nonsense. There was no alteration at any time.

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To be fair to the characters and their litany of stupid decisions, the writing was horrible.

I like these kinds of movies, but they took a decent 'what if' scenario and ruined it.

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