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Joe and the Green Coil (SPOLIERS)

posted 9 years ago by lone-foxx
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These are two ways I see the main characters preventing the mostly fatal conclusion:

1) Include Joe! From the very beginning he is the only one they needed to worry about as he is security, a friend/co-worker, and around every day.

They thought they had thought of everything that would alert officials, such as hiding the bodies and moving the car, but what about Joe? Its his job to watch out for suspicious activity. If they had simply explained it to him, then all four of them could have gotten rich.

The final picture does not matter as we cannot see their bodies in the pic itself so their deaths were avoidable. The blood could have been anyone's, or fake, or not blood at all. Even if the bookie was involved they had a much better chance of dealing with him with Joe's skills/connections.

So ideally they collect large sums of money as inconspicuously as possible. Then they purchase a large private house & property, they move the machine, and become the most powerful people in the world. Or course they could also purchase the apartment complex itself.

If anything they were not thinking big enough, which is a bit ironic when most movies like this are about someone going too large. So perhaps that was clever in a way, no, it didn't fit, they all wanted a better life, now they had the means. Really it comes down to how much you want it and how heavy/delicate the machine is.

OR

2) It is possible that the photograph of the green coil painting is what connects the timeline, if that painting is never made then the timeline we saw never would have happened.

[–] ion-moon 9 years ago

I don't think it matters if the bodies are in the photo or not. The camera isn't magic. Nothing they did could change their fate. What is going to happen is going to happen and the camera will capture whatever happens to be in front of it.

As far as Joe, as an officer of the law I would think he would not have partnered up with them.

[–] Plutos_Charm 9 years ago

He was just a security guard at first and though he seemed very integral (wHich would make him not want to be an accessory, w/the dead bodies), but EVERYONE has a price. And no matter how high his price to overlook his principles, knoWing the future to make money will change his view eventually.

[–] lone-foxx 9 years ago

If its not in the photo then they have no way of knowing it will happen. How was dying fate if its not in any of the photos? Again the blood and the police tape could be unrelated incidents, that is, no one had to die for the photos to take place.

He had not become and Officer of the Law until the last day, or right around then. With his help they could have increased their chance of survival.

Anyways, cops are plenty corrupt, every seen a cop plant evidence? I have. Ever seen a six cops smoke drugs on the beach with the guy they just arrested? I have, from a safe secret location. Ever had cops take your money from your wallet and then act like you didn't have hundreds of dollars? Yeah, pretty sure cops are real people and all people are fallible.

[–] ion-moon 9 years ago

Sure there are corrupt cops, but I think Joe was portrayed as a straight arrow.

Everything that happens, by the movie's logic, happens regardless of what the camera does and regardless of the people do. The camera is just capturing whatever is happening in front of it at the time the shutter closes.

Their death was inevitable whether on or off camera. Had the camera been positioned differently, it would have captured their bodies.

But the camera wasn't like freezing the future scene in time so that anything that happened on camera couldn't change, it was capturing an immutable future.

[–] Plutos_Charm 9 years ago

I totally agree with the tubing bigger comment. 1:if they thought bigger, they could've played a few horse bets (that got maybe 5k, and looked like a small fluke.) They then play the stock market, which are also in news papers, n like you said move in a mansion taking the machine with them, posting the stock market, knowing when/what to buy & sell

[–] ion-moon 9 years ago

Yeah, betting on a bunch of dog races was pretty dumb. lol. But dumb within the realm of plausibility. People do dumb stuff.

Before the trouble even started that was what my dh and I were saying- you don't make a bunch of winning bets with one bookie. Lol and we aren't gamblers.
But people tend to stick with what they know.

[–] carl_johnson-1 9 years ago

Hindsight. They didn't know what was going to happen. Somewhat ironic, considering they had access to a camera that showed future events.

[–] jake-619-887578 9 years ago

First of all I thought it was stupid betting with a bookie. If it were me, I'd go to the race track to bet on horses or greyhounds in this case and not use a bookie.

Second of all, if she had just killed Joe and held that sign up at say 7:58 and kept it up until 8:00 then the second the machine took the photo, the time line should have changed dramatically. Because the second it would have been taken, she would have been warned in the past when her past self saw the photo and she would have prevented her boyfriend and in this scenario Joe from having to die. That's of course assuming she was successful at her boyfriend never seeing all those other pictures. If that were to work put as she planned it would have all been changed.

[–] Trumerica 9 years ago

Yeah but the movie had to end somehow. What I was wondering is how they would explain the dead bookie and the woman in the future. The blood splatter in their apartment can be found.