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I think midnight is the deadline for that and it hadn't been midnight yet (still preparing for the night's New Years special and all that).
It also wasn't the lack of stabilizer that killed her, but rather the matrix body being dead leading to Sue's body sympathetically dying in turn. Note that when she fails to take the stabilizer in time, it leads to a headache and her collapsing--not her teeth and fingernails falling out. Even if she had taken extra stabilizer from her now-dead OG body, the Sue body would have still fallen apart.
She preferred being Sue over being Elisabeth. It's kind of obvious.
I will once again state because everyone is missing it: they are the same person. Elisabeth prefers being Sue. That's why she keeps fucking herself over by spending longer and longer times being Sue. She gets to live as Sue when she's in that body because her consciousness transfers to whatever body is awake.
As for adverse effects, that is an interesting question. I don't think it would actually affect Elisabeth OR Sue physically, but Liz would need to keep feeding the Sue body unless she kills it, or else it will die on its own once it runs out of food. And that's kind of wasteful if she never wanted to switch back again. My logic for this is that the "termination procedure" seems to just be instant euthanasia, which indicates that nothing would happen to Elisabeth when the Sue body dies. It's possible that it's some special magic chemical that unlinks their bodies along with killing the copy, but without the movie giving us any information like that, I assume it's just a simple instadeath drug.
The manual does simply say "Switch every 7 days WITHOUT EXCEPTION", which throws me off since that would sorta count as an exception. But the main thing that seems to affect Elisabeth's body when Sue overstays her welcome is the increased amount of spinal fluid taken, and Elisabeth doesn't need to take Sue's spinal fluid to stay alive and healthy. So we haven't really seen any indication that there would be adverse effects going the other way around.
A lot of people are misreading it. At this point I've gotta blame the writing & directing for making it so unclear. But the clues/facts are there if you pay any amount of attention--it's spelled out constantly throughout the movie and putting any more emphasis on the point would have read as a little gratuitous and infantilizing of the audience--and I picked up on it immediately that they shared a consciousness, with no difficulty whatsoever reconciling what happens in the film with that. In this case, those critics simply didn't understand the movie. It happens. Critics are fallible just like anyone.
No. As the customer service rep keeps saying throughout the movie, they are the same person and have the same consciousness (up until they split at the end, and even then they're the exact same person mentally, just doubled).
Elisabeth is just extremely self-loathing and views the different "versions" of herself as representative as the parts of herself she hates/loves. She sees the aging, ugly, pitiful parts of herself in the older body and the attractive, successful, vain, and mean parts of herself in the younger body.
When she's Elisabeth, she hates how selfish and cruel to herself she is as Sue. When she's Sue, she hates how self-destructive and depressing she is as Elisabeth. Really, she just hates herself no matter what body she's in. The scene where Sue beats Elisabeth to death is literally her beating herself up -- shown literally to represent what she constantly does to herself internally.
The negative effect on Sue is psychological. Self-disgust, regret, horror at her "past self's" actions. It's the same thing that would happen to you the morning after a self-destructive binge, only the physical effects probably only extend to Elisabeth's body.
The most pronounced effect is Sue having to clean the apartment afterwards, which does directly eat into her time to enjoy being Sue.
I feel like everyone is somehow forgetting that they're the same person. How many times does that nice man on the phone have to spell it out for you to understand it's all just Elisabeth self-destructing and fucking over her future-self time and time again.
Makes sense to me that Elisabeth was taking part in a clinical trial, and thus wouldn't have to pay anything. Not that she couldn't afford it, regardless of how much it costs.
To answer your last question, you would have to switch to your OG body and terminate the copy. Otherwise you'll just die.
They're the same person. What she gets out of it is getting to wake up as Margaret Qualley every other week.
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