Continuity mistake: After the scene where he gets hit in the head and he travels into the future 800000 years, he has that gross stuff and blood on his mouth. In the next shot you only see the blood.

The Time Machine (2002)
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Directed by: Simon Wells
Starring: Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Mark Addy, Orlando Jones, Phyllida Law, Samantha Mumba, Yancey Arias
Uber-Morlock: You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back to save her?
Trivia: The director of the movie, Simon Wells, is the great grandson of H.G. Wells.
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Chosen answer: It was a metaphor for their life. He meant had it not been for the destruction of the planet due to scientists (their creations of bombs, germ warfare, etc), the Morlocks could not have existed because they were a result of the same scientists. Had the scientists attempted to do good for mankind, the world would not have turned out like it did when Alexander visited it.
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