The film 'Repeat' on Prime discussion (Spoilers)
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So my understanding is that instead of hearing the dead, he was tapping into people's sleep state in the past.
Like the scene where his daughter has fallen asleep in the classroom and is mumbling 'Where is mum' before her friend wakes her up.
But the very act of him doing this irradiates him and the subject, who gets it worse. Hence his daughter getting sick.
The others asking to speak to dead relatives are in fact causing their deaths by talking to them.
They are asleep in the past, hence saying it's dark and sounding confused.
The daughter disappears because her father pulls her out of the past with the bigger machine but sadly she still dies due to being sickened with radiation.
Hope that helps
Like the scene where his daughter has fallen asleep in the classroom and is mumbling 'Where is mum' before her friend wakes her up.
But the very act of him doing this irradiates him and the subject, who gets it worse. Hence his daughter getting sick.
The others asking to speak to dead relatives are in fact causing their deaths by talking to them.
They are asleep in the past, hence saying it's dark and sounding confused.
The daughter disappears because her father pulls her out of the past with the bigger machine but sadly she still dies due to being sickened with radiation.
Hope that helps
So I watched this after the recordations, Croyde has explained it pretty much exactly as I understood it but I have some thoughts.....
Overall, I wanted them to get more geeky into the science part of it. I feel like they kept it very light so as not to get bogged down with having to explain anything. Obviously given the subject matter, it would have all been made up but I feel like a bit of techno babble would have helped. For example, the fuel source is never explained nor what's causing the radiation poisoning. Nit picking a bit.
The only part I found confusing was the ending. So, the film ends with the main guy contacting himself in the past to tell him not to develop the machine because of what it does. However, we already saw this at the beginning of the film so we know that he does go on to develop it anyway. But why would he? If his future self tells him what the machine will do then surely he'll not do it as it means he'll loose his daughter.
The alternative is that his contacting his past self isn't the scene we see at the start of the film but it so obviously is so I don't think that's the intention here. He's not breaking the loop, it's repeating itself. But it doesn't make sense because he spent that film saying he didn't know what the machine did and genuinely didn't.
When you think about it too much it kind of starts to fall apart a bit, unless I've missed something with the ending but I'm not sure I have because the film is very obvious and deliberate with it's signposting in other parts.
Overall, I wanted them to get more geeky into the science part of it. I feel like they kept it very light so as not to get bogged down with having to explain anything. Obviously given the subject matter, it would have all been made up but I feel like a bit of techno babble would have helped. For example, the fuel source is never explained nor what's causing the radiation poisoning. Nit picking a bit.
The only part I found confusing was the ending. So, the film ends with the main guy contacting himself in the past to tell him not to develop the machine because of what it does. However, we already saw this at the beginning of the film so we know that he does go on to develop it anyway. But why would he? If his future self tells him what the machine will do then surely he'll not do it as it means he'll loose his daughter.
The alternative is that his contacting his past self isn't the scene we see at the start of the film but it so obviously is so I don't think that's the intention here. He's not breaking the loop, it's repeating itself. But it doesn't make sense because he spent that film saying he didn't know what the machine did and genuinely didn't.
When you think about it too much it kind of starts to fall apart a bit, unless I've missed something with the ending but I'm not sure I have because the film is very obvious and deliberate with it's signposting in other parts.
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