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Whoaaaa...did he collect a paycheck? Did they have to release everyone he arrested?
Love Primer! But sure, as you say, the era of making any kind of major invention in your garage has been a pipe dream for decades now.
I agree with your take, except I'd say "unseen foe" rather than "imaginary foe". Seems unlikely to me that the enemy does not exist.
Good suggestion.
Good luck finding a physicist who would agree.
I think Nolan is pretty conscious of not wanting viewers to think about it too hard. It's "fridge logic" at best.
I completely disagree with the idea that he did a good job showing the rules of it. If you think your first two paragraphs make a lick of sense, I don't know what to tell you.
Hahaha, yeah.
I would go back and rewatch: that whole scene is widely considered the best part of the movie and really a kind of masterpiece of a short film in and of itself.
It doesn't show a lot of things clearly, because they just won't make sense. The way you described, with an exit wound and having the bullet go in reverse, is a little easier to swallow; but what about a bullet that can't go all the way through and just gets stuck in the head? You'd have to go in there with a bullet in your brain and then have it jump out of your head and back into the gun. Or what about someone with a knife? Etc. (I'm not really arguing with you, because clearly you see the problems better than others do.)
No, because think about it: from his reversed perspective, the bullet would go from already being in his body, back into the gun. How is he supposed to "hover" with an already lethal bullet wound?
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But most importantly, if you listen to the radio announcers, right before he pulls into the parking ramp, they say the ball is "inbounded" (a term only used in basketball), that a shot is blocked, that a certain player gets a rebound. They say "time is winding down" (this does not happen in baseball: a game is over when the ninth inning is over) and count it down to zero, before saying "the Clippers win!"
Here's a YouTube clip of the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfv995ts_gg
No, watch again: it's basketball. People have caps like that for any sport.
Right, makes sense.
I've explained this over and over. But in short: according to the rules as described, to hit/push someone, you'd...have to move your hand close to them and pull it away quickly? (Even that doesn't really work.) Even to run or walk wouldn't work, if you are reversed, because that requires leverage and friction that doesn't work the same way in reverse.
Certainly the fight we saw between the Protagonist and his own reversed self is impossible.
Basically, you can name any action someone might take to try to have an effect on someone who is reversed from them, and I can describe why it doesn't make sense.
It's a cool concept if you don't really think about it. If you do think about it, it's just nonsensical. (Sorry to be a killjoy.)
Which doesn't make sense. The whole concept is fundamentally a nonstarter.
Sure I was expecting a serious answer. Thanks.
How can he "block" a bullet from hitting someone (in regular forward speed) if for him, the bullet starts out already having hit them? Think about it.
Still doesn't address the problem of the bullet traveling in reverse.
SMH, it's not open-ended.
She's not butt ugly in the real world, but she's definitely way below average by movie star standards.