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spoiler___ If the whole thing is a time loop, how does she not remember at the beginning of the movie? It looks like she knows everything by the time she boards the yatch at the end.

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[-] luna@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

I see it as an endless punishment for the death of her child, as long as she can't accept that she's to blame and that she can't bring him back she'll stay stuck in the loop. I think she does end up forgetting (maybe on purpose) by the time she's back on the ship and that's why she makes the same mistakes each time.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It’s been awhile since I saw it, but that was my take on it. I get that there’s a loop that keeps on happening, but what bothered me was that I didn’t understand how the loop would’ve started. It’s like there’s multiple timelines interacting in this loop, it kind of contradicts itself and doesn’t make sense. In the beginning of the loop, when they’re still at home, the original Jess (Bad Mom Jess) is killed by herself (the same Jess we follow throughout the movie), who arrives there at the end of the movie. So if the original Jess gets killed by herself, how did the loop ever start? It feels like there’s no “on-ramp” for getting the loop going and it seems to break the whole thing. Otherwise, it just seems like she’s in some sort of Purgatory, having to relive this horrible scenario each time, endlessly. It’s like a horror version of Groundhog Day.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Now that I think about it, the on ramp could be the original Jess, but I think the body in the trunk is actually the kid. If you recall, in the beginning, when she is carrying him outside, she’s telling him she has cleaned up all the paint on the floor. I think what happened is that she couldn’t console him and in the anger she hits him and he dies. She puts him in the trunk and shows up dazed at the docks. Tells them he is at school. That’s when the time loop starts. That is why when she gets back to the house, she is so easy to kill her self. She kills her because she killed her son in her anger. She tries to save her son from death, but he dies anyway. So she enters the loop again to try saving him again.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That's good. Sounds spot on.

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