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[Spoilers] Question about the notes


The movie spent a lot of time showing how the wife's placed the note deep in the crack in the wall and painted over it. But when the ghost went back around through time to the second time she placed a note it was just sticking out and he was able to easily grasp it and finally read it.

Why was it different the second time? I feel like I must have missed some moment when something changed. Was it an alternate reality? Did he use ghost telekinesis to pull the note out, a power he didn't know he had before he started scratching at it for years? What?

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The ghost we see getting old through time (sheet is dirty) is the same ghost Casey sees on the wall as a light when they are in the sofa and when Mara leaves the house at the end we see the new ghost so its like a paradox? Does the note say "I will never come back" or "bye" or "I will always love you" I think? when the neighbor ghost says he's waiting but can't remember and the house gets destroyed he says I think they ain't coming back so it vanishes no more waiting so I imagine when old ghost reads the note realizes that she is not coming back? or he just wanted to read it so is done? and vanishes BUT I thought that when old ghost was new and kept scratching the paint to get the note and the camera is inside the cavity, the note is not there anymore so it means the old ghost had taken it out already?, although I thought he almost reached it when the backhoe came throught the window, I'm confused. I know is confusing so apparently the old ghost took the note which was at the edge of the paint just after Mara left easier to pick out and the new ghost spent the eternity trying to reach it when there was no note? I don't know anymore. He just didn't want to leave the house and wanted to read the wife's note, so when he reads it that's it? I mean the feeling of grabbing the note grows in the movie so that's the goal I guess

I was about to turn it off when the pie but I ended up liking it very much, a weird movie that made me feel very weird, like sad, feel like crying, it makes me depressed, my Dad's passing anniversary was this week and my Mom's day was 2 days ago so it always makes me feel weird and this movie made me feel even weirder but in a weird way, like when you are sad and listening to a sad song makes you feel worst but good.

Good movie 8/10

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You’re not alone in your reaction to this film. It is sad and depressing.

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