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Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.


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These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.


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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I watched it once in a university cinema. They showed it twice to give people a chance to really understand it but most left, including me because it was so much beyond that a second watch couldn't clear it up.

But yes, I watched it, AMA, but nothing about the movie

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have watched it twice.

I still have no idea if that timeline is close to correct or completely wrong. I still don't get exactly what the end of the movie means. I highly suspect the movie's story doesn't end at the end of the movie, but I have no way to be certain. I still don't know if a couple of people actually died.

Or, in other words, I only watched it twice. I have no idea what the story is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still don’t get exactly what the end of the movie means.

it means Aaron is creating a giant time machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But were they all over the world already? Is the machine under construction or running for thousands of iterations?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, that was your mistake because during the second viewing you from one week in the future would have walked in and explained the plot to you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For one thing, it's not linear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a couple of guys use time travel to try to get rich, but they completely fuck up their lives in the process