When I first watched TimeCrimes, I was struggling to understand if the TimeCrimes time travel system was deterministic or if time could actually change as the movie moved forward. A lot of this confusion centered around the young woman… who she was, how many times did she die? Did she die at all? Was Hector’s wife killed and then saved? Was she killed at all? Etc. I also wasn’t sure how the time machine worked. But seeing as though this was the first time that a “vertibrate had entered” the machine, they didn’t understand it either.