Hey there Phil,
nice to meet you. Gotta say, I have zero idea what you are talking about. I don’t discuss The Lost Daughter in this post at all – this is a conversation about the movie Time Crimes… I also don’t discuss Gyllenhaal in this post either. So, in order to search other posts that you might be errantly attempting to comment on, I searched out my Lost Daughter review and there was nothing there about Gyllenhaal either. I definitely error often, so, my apologies if I offended. I attempted to figure out how to respond, but am currently at a loss.

Until next time,
Taylor

Great question – no, I absolutely do not. That’s a great question. If anyone else has a bead on the trunk, I’d love to hear theories. Is it a Pulp Fiction type epiphany? Interesting.

Do you have any theories on the opening of the trunk at the beginning? I remember thinking at the time “this will be significant for some reason,” but I never got a good answer. Some said it’s symbolic/ foreshadowing of how he has to go backward and clean up his mess, is that it?

Is there any reason to believe Hector 2 or 3 were behind it? Make him too tired/ lazy to go to town to continue the loop and get him alone from his wife?

made some slight edits from my last paragraph lol.

so the only real question leads to who is the scientist? and why was he there at the lab at the first place cause if you think about it if the scientist wasn’t there none of this would’ve happen and you will see why at my last comment on this post.

so coming from the end of the story he already knew h3 was there the whole time and went along with it from the beginning of the movie so how did he know hector 3 was coming there to begin with? there’s obviously a backstory on the scientist that we don’t know about , was the scientist the main person who started this to begin with? because the scientist knew everything from hector 3 and when hector 3 went into the time machine he didn’t EVEN EXIST CAUSE H2 WAS ONLY PRESENT AT THE TIME when he was talking to the scientist (getting goosebumps writing this ) , SO HOW DID THE SCIENTIST EVEN KNOW THIS BEGIN WITH?

because h3 wasn’t even alive at the time when the scientist told H2 about it.

some what ifs?

what if the scientist forcefully made H2 not go in the time machine or maybe went even deeper defending the fuse that he threw out , would h3 even existed?

( it wouldn’t have made sense for the movie because the scene which the scientist claimed h3 is the one that told the scientist about h2 which was h2 before he spawned another h3. )

what if he broke the movie script / paradigm and seen his own duplicate bodies face 2 face before any events surfaced?

there’s tons of directions this movie could’ve went.

cuz at the end h3 doesn’t even go back to the time machine and all 3 of the hectors are still alive and the scientist , honestly there can be an prequel to the movie where it shows the backstory of the scientist and how did the scientist lure the main hector in IF he was the mystery person or apart of the main character of the backstory and a part 2 where all the hectors meet each other as the sequel.

but really the real question is who is exactly the scientist? and how did he get hector to even know about the lab in the first place cuz obv the bandage hector was the 1st one before he even got the beginning hector attention. also since there’s no backstory on the 3rd hector other than the scientist telling the bandage hector that hector 3 will be spawned if he got in.

so imagine if the bandaged hector never got in what would happen? there’s a lot of what ifs in the movie.

but i honestly think people wants to know is the backstory of the scientist cause the movie only starts us 1 hour every time hes goes in the time machine so what if hector went back 2 hours? the movie could’ve added a part of him going 2 hours instead of 1 so there’s still a lot of things that could be answered & solved. & i think the scientist was in on this the whole time tbh cause the scientist knew what would happen cause future hector told him and he knew h3 would mess it up as you see in the end.

(quick add on )
lol if we go back to near the end of the movie around 1:09:00 mins it seemed as H2 which was the real hector & spawned H3 as H2 goes to hide in the back which the scientist tells H2 about cause h2 didn’t know the future ( he didn’t exist yet ). but the only real reason h2 knew h3 exist is cause the scientist told him about it BINGO! so is hector a clone? was he even real person / what if this was a whole lab experiment developed from the scientist to begin with lol? , we really need to know who the scientist is & i think what everyone is trying to figure out.

how did the scientist know h3 was there the whole time? that’s the part the movie doesn’t convey as we see h2 spawning h3 INSTEAD OF THE SCIENTIST and which the scientist told h2 about h3 when h3 didn’t even exist before h2 spawned h3.