Rick Dalton said:
tysker said:
That would also explain some of the editing choices during the shipping container scene before the final act. The conversations between Protagonist, Neil and Kat felt awkward, forced and almost out of alignment. But instead, maybe, we're seeing more than one?
I haven't transcribed my notes from that scene yet but you may be right. They've got a week in that container to get back to the Oslo Freeport and Neil starts explaining physics to Kat and the Protagonist.
I gave it some more thought and I wonder in the container ship scene(s) are actually the same 'people' but some sequences we're seeing them moving forward in the timeline and in others we're seeing them inverted, moving backwards in time. But because they are isolated from the world around them there's no obvious effects to us. This is also why you probably wouldnt appear to age, and/or you could run into your decades younger self, if you spent enough time inverted.
My wife, God bless her nerdery, likened it to Dr Who and his wife/girlfriend that is also a Time Lord. Upon the two coming into contact, they have to be careful discussing their personal past events because they don't know when the other one is currently and any event may be in the other's future.