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A line from the film that really stood out to me was "Every time you look at the future it changes, because you looked at it. And that changes everything else." This seems to support the idea that time is changing, that everything is constantly changing. And it invokes another idea that each change has its succeeding change and that there is some kind of chain reaction mechanism. But what interests me is the fact that simply looking at it changes the future. Why does simply looking at it change it? What if you were to look at it but do nothing to alter the change? This seems to imply that the simple act of looking, which can arguably equate to the simple fact of knowing the future or the succeeding change is enough to change the future. So does knowledge, even if left alone and not used, have the power to change a future? Or might it mean that once we have knowledge, it is impossible to separate it from our actions which effect change? This reminds me of Bergson when he says that having an end state in mind drives the action to arrive at that end state. But in the case of this film, the major storyline is that he has two end states in mind: the one he sees occurring in the future, and the one he desires to occur in the future. And knowledge of both these end states drives his actions.