[movie] After Earth (Will Smith + Sons) - Page 2

old joe is travelling back in time to kill the rainman, who killed his wife, and at one point, he meets and talks with his younger self, young joe. old joe says he knows everything what young joe knows, by the point young joe realizes it, cause they are both the same just differenzt times. which makes it one time line as young joe realizes something and old joe can remember it, no matter what. (no such thing like back to the future wich different time lines)

and now the fucking up aka grandfather paradox:

at the end, young joe realizes that old joe killes the mother of rainman and therefor rainman kills all loopers and it happens that old joes wife get killed too. young joe made the decision, that if he kills himself, there would be no old joe who killed rainmans mother, rainman would have no motivation to kill loopern and the wife would not be killed.

but when young joe dies, there will never be an old joe, rainmans mother would never die by him, rainman would later on have no feelings for revenge on the loopers and no old joe (who is dead for years now anyways) would travel back in time and young joe never has to make the decision to kill himself -> grandfather paradox


so annoying and fuck up, had to say it again