He only wraps his whole face to disguise his identity. He could have just wrapped the injured forehead but if his face was exposed, Hector 1 would have seen himself stabbing himself and that would have blown the mind of his self… or something like that. I don’t know anymore. This movie turned my brain to mush.

He only wraps his whole face to disguise his identity. He could have just wrapped the injured forehead but if his face was exposed, Hector 1 would have seen himself stabbing himself and that would have blown the mind of his other self… or something like that. I don’t know anymore. This movie turned my brain to mush.

Let’s start from the beginning. H1 is watching out in the woods. He sees a girl undressing and isn’t really sure what hes seeing. Let’s assume H2/H3 don’t exist yet because H1 hasnt gone back in time yet. The events he is watching is not H2, but the original attacker of the girl. So H1 goes back in time to escape from the attacker who chases him to the silo. Now H1 first travels back in time. Now as H2, he is confused, probably makes the phone call just like before, but when he drives out of the compound this is where things get tricky. He sees the same girl and slams on the breaks just like before. But in order for him to crash into the trees and force himself to become the mysterious bandaged man, H3 had to have crashed into him. But H3 wouldn’t exist yet because H2 hadn’t yet finished his course of events.

Here’s where the confusion comes in. H2 spends all of his time doing exactly what he saw himself do as H1. In fact, you could see there was a lot of trial and error trying to get it just right to how he remembered seeing it, to scare himself to the same location that he originally would have had to run to to send himself back in time. –How would H2 originally have been able to figure out that he himself would have to lure H1 to the time machine?–How did the first H2 know what events to recreate? To him, he only saw the original attacker, not himself as the bandaged man, so the first time through would have been — It is not instinctual! All the events he recreated from his original memory would not be the correct version of the events if the original attacker never pursued the girl. We clearly watch H2 do everything he saw himself do, not the original mystery rapist attacker.

Another way to look at it, say you start the movie at when H2 is first released from the tank. You watch and see him doing everything as he remembers seeing it, but each decision he makes will seem arbitrary and nonsensical because, as a viewer, we will have no idea why he is doing the things he was doing. Only he will remember what he saw, but what he saw as H1 is only ever shown as what he did as H2, not what the original rapist attacker did. H3 can only exist if H2 makes a mistake which wouldnt happen if H1 never went back in time in the first place.

H3 – Has H2 and H1 memories
H2 – Has H1 memories
H1 – Only has to witness events and run to the time machine (apparently in the same manner each time he time travels or else either time collapses or H1 ceases to exist?)

The way the movie is set up, there is no room for an original rapist attacker. The sequence of events would be altered once the first time travel took place and there would be way too much room for interpretation on what he is actually supposed to do to get his H1 self up to the time machine.

No, it’s not possible. Our consciousness could only handle on “person” at a time, because, as Tesla already said: We don’t think with our brain, our thoughts come from a higher dimension. Our brain is only a transmitter and receiver.
In this dimension, a personality is exclusively reserved for the one it belongs too and can’t be shared by three personalities.
Tesla must be correct, because all experiments with cloning animals only lead to brain cancer death of the clones, meaning that their Communication with the higher dimension fails and the brain “commits suicide”

If he doesn’t stab himself then he doesn’t go back in time, and if he doesn’t go back in time then (at best) Hector 3 ceases to exist or (at worst) the universe collapses into itself due to a time paradox.