Her waking up the way she did indicates that she will remember a previous loop. When she wakes up before she starts to remember it’s subtle, when she starts remembering she wakes up like she’s coming out of a bad dream, that’s the clue.

So we can think that loop would’ve caused something at least something to the world inside the movie, physically it was the circle and the difference seemed to be:

1. ecosystem inside the circle (the contrast that shows the color difference inside&outside circle, this is important because organisms were also kinda a big key to this movie)
2. memory (it’s all about the variables of memory in this)
3. Behavior as memory changes

As far as I’m concerned, the problem to this is that first of all data is also physically differing as computer records it, and since memory is very fragile and when big changes occur to you your memory can be always shut off, just like that. But the problem is that memory causes change in behavior, and behavioral changes caused them to record the warning message.

So now we know what’s consistent and what’s not.
So far the movie has lots of ‘organic’ differences and physical stuff that does not change. Setting those physical stuff as consistent variable, organic differences are the inconsistent variable that we want to verify.

First flaw to this: Hard drives are not physically same, it’s different
Second: Time speeds up in a linear manner, but their conception doesn’t.

This is because it’s a movie, ‘conception’ is something that it’s hard to adjust or to be shown by film. Also computer is obviously not what filmmaker doesn’t know, since simplest and the important thing that does not change is how computer operates.(Hard drive, come on!)

So there it is, I guess other things are also there but so far I know computer a bit and brain a whole lot well so that’s how I think. This is a really great movie with a low budget, even as a time-looping story. Maybe the key to understand this is to see it in organic/ physical way, or maybe by profiling director’s FOV and how does it affects the film. Either way is so fun and interesting.

I believe that’s because in Loop 5 Renton clears the formula off the screen to explain the time loop to Hannah for the first time. In later iterations, however, Hannah is already aware of the loop and so Renton does not need to wipe the equations from the screen, and draw the time loop diagram for her.

It’d be one thing if she woke up and we KNEW she remembered, but her just waking up first doesn’t really indicate that? Unless the suddenness of her waking is supposed to be that indicator.
I don’t think that Hannah would have woken up first in some iterations and not others. I think it’s supposed to be significant, but not sure of what. My only thought was that he died for good and isn’t waking up.
And yes, I saw inception, but the spinning top had very clear consequences. We knew what would happen if it fell over. In ARQ we aren’t really clued into what her waking up first would mean.

Thanks! I believe its Father who has the SKY message in his mouth. Renton gave Hannah the SKY prompt word in the previous loop (7) while Sonny was disguised as the electrocuted Cuz on the floor, and now its in Father’s mouth in the next loop. Quite intriguing. Perhaps Sonny placed it there as a means to get a message to Toros, before then shooting himself.

Great site!

That’s a good/tricky question. Maybe Renton misunderstood what the petrified circle represents, and the time loop actually has more than just a localized effect, and that it could also act as a physical barrier. Or alternatively, if he is correct and time inside the boundary is different from that outside, then there must still be a convergence point in which the loop and the outside timeline meet, i.e. when the intruders enter the house for the first time.

If that’s the case, then the Earth’s timeline reality continues as usual unless an outside Toros operative is contacted by phone, in which case a parallel universe may be created. As a result, ARQ may have resulted in an infinite number of parallel universes being created, while those people trapped inside the loop continue to exist within its roughly three and a quarter hour time cycle. Just an idea, although I am sure there are many other interesting possibilities to explain the puzzle..