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why does the protagonist need to recruit neil at all?

after having lived out the events of the movie, wouldn't it be much simplier for the protagonist to invert himself to a few days before "the 14th", travel to stalsk-12, hide in the hypocentre, and steal the algorithm after the explosion? why need to recruit neil at all?

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u/Physical-Flow-4341 avatar

Because that's how It happened 😂

Despite what the movie clearly outlines, you seem to be under the impression he could change the past.

"What's happened, happened."

If he was to do what you said, it would've happened that way in the first place. He can't change it after the fact. They are fated to do everything they've witnessed their inverted selves doing. It happened, and there's no way to change it.

u/Alive_Ice7937 avatar

travel to stalsk-12, hide in the hypocentre, and steal the algorithm after the explosion?

The algorithm isn't there after the explosion.

Go ask Nolan I say, he’ll tell you to talk to my hand 🖐️

How do you steal it if it's buried

Because that would’ve made a terrible movie.