starring Amy Smart, Ashton Kutcher, Ethan Suplee (add more)
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After Evan wakes up and falls off Kayleigh's bed, he has white boxers on. He then wraps a towel around him and proceeds down the hallway. Yet when he's in the girl's showers you can notice that when he discovers the naked girl behind him, he shows a little too much of himself to be wearing much of anything below it. [He never loosens the towel that's around his waist, so nothing is shown. And the sink is covering him.]
In the scene where Evan, now in prison, heads towards the gang leaders cell to "make a deal", you can see him walking past several gang members outside, obviously watching over the leaders. Yet when he stabs one of the leaders, picks up his journal and calls for Carlos to help, Carlos runs into the cell from the same side as Evan went in. Surely the gang members outside the cell would have seen Carlos follow Evan towards the cell and stopped him from entering after seeing Evan stab their leader? [Carlos had been in prison a long time, was a religious man, and wasn't seen as a threat. There was also mass confusion, they probably just didn't see him or pay attention.]
Corrected by Nick Bylsma
In the scene where Evan wakes up as a frat boy in bed with Kayleigh he falls out of bed; as he hits the ground and in the following second his white boxer shorts move to the side and the result for a second is quite revealing. This was noticed on the DVD and is even more obvious if the film is slowed down slightly. [Where is the movie mistake? This is what happens when a guy wears boxer shorts.]
Corrected by Phixius
According to Tommy's tombstone, he died in April 1995. However, the movie they saw days before his death, Se7en, was not released until September 1995. [There is no month on Tommy's tombstone, just the years.]
In Evan's final attempt to change the past he scares Kayleigh away and they lived happily. In the rush of new memories it shows what happened to Kayleigh's family. These memories are something he shouldn't have because he never saw them anymore. [Those are not his memories. The clips are just there to show the audience how Kayleigh's life turned out without Evan.]
Evan's mother drives a 2 door car. When Evan, Kayleigh and Evan's mom are in the car just before Evan's mom announces they are moving, Kayleigh gets out the back door. However, she can't do this - there is no back door. [If you look closely you can see that Evan moves forward to allow Kayleigh to exit. Afterward you see Evan moves back to his original position.]
When Evan is awakened from his hypnosis session, he has a nosebleed, which is trickling down his face and around the left side of his chin. When the nosebleed began, he was lying on his back, so the blood should run back towards his ear, rather then straight down his chin. As the doctor is trying to wake him, blood is seen to be moving in this direction, so even if more blood had run down his chin after he sat up, the other path should still be visible. [Evan was propped up slightly by the back of the couch he was lying on, explaining why the blood ran down his face instead of across it.]
In the scene where Evan is in Sunnyvale institute and demands his journals, the doctor says he has never had any. The very same doctor told him to start writing in journals when he was seven before he killed Kaylee, so when Evan went back in time to destroy the firework, he couldn't have erased journals that were written before that. [The doctor was lying to him. In this timeline the doctor knows that Evan's problems are related to his journals. So keeping Evan away from them is one of the ways the Doctor knows will help him get better.]
There are two sorts of black outs in Ashton's youth. Ones that are caused by strong traumatic situations (the exploding mailbox, the burning of the dog) and the others are caused by returning to that spot from the future (the kitchen knife, the interview with the father). So, in the first sort of black outs, Ashton alters the past by returning to them (like in Back to the Future), in the second kind, the past is already altered since it's gone, and it contains Ashton's return and its causes from the very beginning (like in 12 Monkeys). Doesn't this seem weird? [Every blackout Evan has is due to going back in his own lifetime and either altering it or not. The dog burning scene and the exploding mailbox scene are both scenes in which Evan went back, but essentially didn't change anything at first.]
When Evan is convincing his cellmate to help him recover his journals, he time travels back to kindergarten and injures his hands. When he returns to the present his cellmate says that the stigmata have just appeared. While it's true that from Evan's perspective, the scars on his hands have just appeared, no one else in the movie keeps their memories from previous timelines, so his cellmate shouldn't have been able to remember a time when Evan didn't have the scars, seeing as how in the new timeline, Evan got them from an injury that happened in long before he came to prison. [It is true that when Evan alters his past he completely changes his timeline, but in this instance he is not changing the past, he is only reliving it.]
Evan is in his prison cell trying to convince Carlos to help him. He goes back in time to when he got in trouble for the picture, to smash his hands on the teachers note holders giving him the stigmata marks needed to convince Carlos. Before, when Evan 'does' get in trouble for the picture when he was 'actually' younger, stabbing his hands never happened. Evan only blacks out when he is young because he goes back in time at that moment in the future when he is older; at no point did Evan go back in time just to draw a picture. [Incorrect. Evan can go back to any time he chooses to. He just needs to remember a "key event" in his past to go back there. He mainly goes back to times he "blacks out" because he can easily remember those "key events". Getting into trouble for the drawing is one of those "key events" he can recall the memory of easily.]
When the children are 13, they go to the cinema to see the film "Se7en". When "Se7en" was released it was given an "R" rating, meaning no-one under 17 would be permitted entry without an accompanying adult. Thus, they should not have been able to see that film. [Since when does a movie theatre actually enforce that rating? Many kids can also buy for one movie and walk into another. Also, the rating system isn't law, so the theatre doesn't have to enforce it if they don't want to.]
When Evan and Thumper are in their dorm room, Evan decides to try going back in time using his journal and Thumper warns him not to because he says that he "might wake up more f*cked up than he already is." Then later in the movie he goes to visit prostitute Kayleigh and tells her that she is the first and last person he has ever told. He must have told Thumper, otherwise he wouldn't have known that Evan could "wake up" after reading his journal. [Thumper does NOT necessarily know why Evan is reading his journals. He thinks Evan is trying to conduct some kind of therapy or hypnosis, etc., and that is why he says Evan might wake up more F*cked up etc. With Evan being a weird psychology student (growing mice in the dorm room), Thumper might expect some strange behaviours. He does not know that Evan is literally going back in time.]
In the scene in the basement when Evan is confronting Kayley's father (when he goes back in time), the camera keeps switching shots back and forth between Evan and Kayley's father. The red light on the camera is on the whole time until the end, when he Evan threatens Kayley's father (when he says he is going to castrate him if he messes up). [The father has his hand on the camera during the whole conversation, so he could have stopped the recording.]
Corrected by Kristal
When the young Evan is getting the knife to stop the firework, in one shot he is trying to put the knife in his pocket. However, in the next, he has the knife down by his side and is not moving. [This is because he heard his mother coming and froze. Then he blacked out the memory, and did not know why he was holding the knife.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
In the first scene where Evan is writing his final note before watching the home-made movie and he's reading out loud he speaks the words slowly, but in the second scene, near the end, he's talking much faster. It is supposed to be the same scene both times. [Yes this is true, but if you noticed that, then you must have noticed that the first time that scene is played, the whole thing is slower. If you have the dvd, listen to the audio commentary and you will here the co-writers/co-directors say that the first time is slower, and that its done on purpose.]
Evan manipulates people's actions, but nothing in the world around them changes. The only people who seem to be affected are the protagonists. If their lives had changed, even if it was minor. When in the film, it seems to be major lifetime changes that occur. Then there would be a large number of differences to the world that Evan eventually ends up in. [Not necessarily. If these people were changed it wouldn't have a huge effect on the world since the people aren't very influential to what goes on in the world. If however, he had killed a world leader or someone of high power then it would cause a huge effect.]
In the first scene that Evan has the knife, the camera shows Evans Mom grab her purse off the couch and she is swinging it in her hand. They cut to Evan holding the knife and back to the mother, NO PURSE. [She probably dropped the purse when she saw her cheerful son holding a big knife in his hand from the shock of it.]
Every time Evan blacks out, it's a time when he could go back in time and change things. However, he didn't go back until AFTER he was grown up (e.g. the scene in the basement with Kayleigh's dad, the first time he didn't call him a f****ag). However, he blacked out just before he got the knife in the kitchen, and he was getting the knife to stop the firework from blowing his arms off. And, when he blacked out with his dad in the hospital, it was because he had gone back and told him he was going back, which is why the dad attacked him. Seems it's one rule one minute and a different one the next. [There are really no set "rules" to his going back in time. Rather, he only really tries to go back to when he has had a blackout, hence having the blackout. But at the very end, he is able to travel back using the video, but was not having a blackout at the time the video was made.]
In the Director's Cut DVD version, in the scene after Evan's mother took Evan to see the fortune teller, she told him about two still-births occurred before he was born. However at the end of the movie, when Evan travelled back to the time when he was about to be born, the voice of his mother mentioned about three still births before him. [Since Evan was getting new memories showing a life without him and showing his parents with another baby, a girl, Evan could have been hearing his mother telling the girl after she grew up about the two babies and also about Evan, making it three babies.]
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