Comments on: Baffling Movie The Incident Explained

By: Eva

Eva — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:17 +0000

Hey I just watched it again after a few years, and I don’t think this movie is necessarily supposed to offer answers. What I noticed this time is the Late Fate tattoo in the first scene. Would that imply the futility of it all? All the loops are endless (just as all time loops are) and those seem to be stories that people just happen to, not the other way around. It’s a concept explored extensively in literature.
None of them have a choice, once their circumstance changes, they come in posession of the red book, read their new identity, someone dies, mouse runs on.

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:17:35 +0000

If you liked this movie you might also like “The Similars”, by the same writer/director: Isaac Ezban.
It used to be on Netflix, but I don’t think it’s there anymore, so it might be a tad difficult to find, but totally worth it!

By: Melissa Waters

Melissa Waters — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:57:14 +0000

In reply to Chris. Now that I’ve had all night to lie awake and think about this brain-twisty movie, I think that that gerbil/hamster/rat-thingy may represent the endless hell of the characters each spinning on their respective hamster wheel. Spinning and going nowhere. The bride dies and a new generation begins the ride. Happy thoughts.

By: Melissa Waters

Melissa Waters — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 05:28:02 +0000

In reply to Chris. I thought it odd too that the bride was still in her bridal dress. Does it perhaps mean that she ended the cycle?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:07:48 +0000

Fascinating movie!

The gerbil appears with Daniel, Carlos, Karl, and the elderly bride. Significant? Did anyone notice if the gerbil appeared with Oliver, too? What was the significance of the young boy running down the escalator and taking the gerbil from the elderly bride?

At the end of the movie, just as at the start, the elderly bride appears on the escalator. This time she’s holding the red book and appears to have died. Presumably, 70 years have transpired since her initial contact with Karl. It appears she didn’t heed his warning and likely caused another incident. So the cycle continues? (Odd, don’t you think, that she’s still in her bridal gown?)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:52:32 +0000

In reply to Aaron.

Ok you nailed it on this part. I couldn’t figure out the inhaler but it appears he did have it, or did it regenerate every day but that didn’t matter because she had already died before the first regeneration? And in the original loop the inhaler was broken? Or was it the second one in his backpack all along?

When his mom asked him to retrieve the backup inhaler, he was off camera for quite a while so he could have conceivably gotten it. Oh and what did the ex husband bring up on the phone that got the mom so upset. Lots of layers to this movie.

Also, one thing I found odd/interesting was their flashback lives showed them becoming who they were in their “real lives” while simultaneously being stuck in the loop. So why the name change. And Oliver becoming Karl, was the woman in the library some sort of Russian agent who recruited him to the KGB or something? It seems that the young people do become something more capable of evil than their loop selves and once leaving the loop the commit these “sacrificial” acts on autopilot thus creating a new split/loop but notice in the real world the sacrificed do still love on without being sacrificed. I bet it all has something to do with a jet engine causing a time loop. It’s a mad world indeed.

By: Michael Staley

Michael Staley — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 03:56:14 +0000

I’m old…72..but not mentally or physically. I do have times when i complain about things that don’t matter, but continually remind myself…even now how much life has given me. During the conclusion of this movie i realized…yes regrets….but i never dwelled on them. Took the easy way out…yes..sometimes. Trying to justify history in my mind….i realized i wish i had been more aware of what was going on. Thanks for the thoughtful Review

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:20:33 +0000

Pretty intriguing movie, I like the ambiguity of it, and like the best examples of the absurd or surreal, it is open-ended. To me, one key part that got me thinking was when Carlos/Roberto were dying and saying how they aren’t real: “Nothing is real. You and I aren’t real. We are an alternate version of reality. The real you and the real me are somewhere else entirely. Somewhere real. Somewhere where they’re happy while we’re trapped in these infinite hells. So we can move physically and emotionally to generate that energy and happiness for our real selves. That’s what we are: the machinery of the real world.” These hells that are happening are something akin to the subconscious of the actual person playing itself out. Notice that in the montages, once they are older, they have tragedies strike and whatever happiness they had is over. That’s because their projection of themselves within these subconscious loops have given up. They do not move physically and emotionally forward, and thus, their real selves cannot either. I think it’s a deeply psychological film that’s saying that our own subconscious does a lot of our own processing of incidents in our lives. “Incident” is basically just examining that process anthropomorphically.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:29:05 +0000

Wow, this movie. I’m so glad I watched it. Was the juice from the gas station? I didn’t pick up on piles of juice bottles after they were looping (I was distracted by the gross toes and the beer bottles). Also, did Daniel have the second inhaler the whole time? If the bag he’s carrying is his, it seems like he has the answer to the problem but failed to realize it. Following that line of thinking, did Oliver have what was needed to fix up his brothers leg? He had needle and thread, tape, finger nail clippers from the backpack. Marco has the meds to knock him out. And what’s in that envelope!?!

Also, got to agree with Carlos’ comment above about the red book. This definitely adds an interesting wrinkle in trying to explain what’s going on.