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Today I'll show you a science fiction film: "The Incident"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a flash of an old woman on an escalator, and snippets of a newlywed couple
The snippets lead us to the present, when one guy waits for the elevator to open on his floor
Carlos enters his unit
Inside, his brother who is much taller than him, welcomes Carlos with a stutter
Carlos tries to talk to him as he actually has good news to tell; but the tall guy does not listen
Instead, the tall guy starts apologizing, much to Carlos's growing confusion
In an answer, someone speaks and presents himself as a detective
The detective points a gun at them, as he explains the tall guy's confession
In fear of going to the police station, they fight with the detective, and run out of the apartment
Carlos makes sure to bring his backpack with him, as they then run down the stairs
However, a shot to his leg stops both of them
For a moment, the detective looks at his gun in surprise, and drops it on the floor
Then, an explosion from somewhere, and a scream from the tall guy puts him back on alert
He picks up his gun, and threatens the two men to go with him
On the first floor, the detective notices more flights of stairs going down
Annoyed, he murmurs about how confusing the building is, and continues going down
Nine, eight, seven, and one, nine again
They find no end to the stairs
Carlos thinks he is having delusions caused by the bullet in his leg
On the other hand, the circumstances anger the detective,
who thinks that the two brothers drugged him
In spite of the moment, he orders the two to stay where they are, and runs down the stairs again
All reason leaves him when, after sweating it all, he meets the brothers at the same spot
They now believe they are inside a loop of some sort
Letting the situation sink into their heads,
the tall guy's mind also sinks into the fact that his brother is injured,
and is gradually losing his life source
He pressures the detective to do something
However, no matter how he trashes him with his words, the detective is just as helpless as they are
At the moment, the only things they have are a pad of painkillers for Carlos,
a vending machine of snacks and drinks, and Carlos's bag
On another side of the city, a man plays with a little girl
In the same room as they are, a boy is doing his own thing
They are his lover's children
They are preparing for a road trip, and the mother of the house is busy pacing for things they need
They're on the road not long after that
Three hours into their drive, they stop at a gas station to relieve themselves
While waiting for the mother to finish her business first,
the man talks to the little girl, and tries to earn her trust
Hence, he offers his drink to the girl
The girl hesitates at first, but after some thought, she takes a sip
Not long after, the mother calls for the girl to also relieve herself
In a display of trust, the girl leaves her most prized possession- her inhaler,
to the man, and tells him to take care of it for her
The man promises to do so
Back on the road, the mother grows mad at the man, as the little girl struggles for her breath
She is having an asthma attack because of the drink
Beside her, the boy tries to calm her down, but to no avail
They pulled over to attend to her
The man remembers he has the girl's inhaler and hurriedly pulls it out of his chest pocket
However, he must have been full of klutz as he drops the thing on the ground and steps on it
The inhaler becomes a two-part body
The woman snaps at the man as they get back to the car
The boy is in a theater as he watches his mother throwing words at the man,
who can only absorb and deflect some of them
Next to the boy, the little girl is busy catching her breath watching the same show
The show escalates as the girl's asthma attack worsens
Nevertheless, a moment of quiet gets between them,
when an explosion from somewhere booms around their lives
Then, another form of panic creeps into them
For the girl's sake, they are going back their way
Going back for an emergency is taking too long for the mother,
as she grows more frantic by the second
The man, on the other hand, is getting confused by each passing moment
He is more than certain that he is driving by the same gas station
and road sign a couple of times now
They get back to the gas station again, and try to find help
They find no one
They get back on the road again, and try to calm the girl as much as they can
Soon after, the boy notices something is wrong with the time
The car's time is 7:20, though the sun is still up
It is something the man cannot explain
At that moment, he can only break into tears,
as the girl reminds him how much she trusted him, but it is now a disappointment
Getting sight of the same road sign for the umpteenth time now, the man stops the car and gets off
Shock writes on the faces of the boy and the mother,
as the man tells them he's finding help on foot
Soon after, they can see him turning his back on them,
as he walks through the thorny growths of cacti
Overcome with emotions, the mother gets into the driver's seat and starts the car
Seeing what is happening, the boy reminds his mother about her lack of license;
but the mother takes no heed
Instead, she even steps on the accelerator harder as she recites her newfound mantra,
"This is a dream Wake up Sandra "
No matter how much the mother has been slapping herself and screaming her mantra,
the road still repeats itself
The boy grows weary watching his mother recklessly fighting over the unknown,
with his sister now losing consciousness
A pause in the car; and the boy gets off of it and drags his sister with him
Even then, the mother gives no care and still steps on the wheels
Off she goes, looping over and over again until she can't bear it anymore
She goes back to the gas station, and curls herself into a helpless ball
On the road, the boy lays with his sister, who shows no sign of waking up
He is about to lay down himself, when he sees a spot of red growing in the distance
It is the man
He stands up and tries to get closer to him
His face does not show it, but he is hoping for good news from the man
The man gives him just plain news, "We're trapped"
The sun never goes down after the incidents
It never takes a rest, even after the walls by the stairs are covered with ink
Every single day is accounted for on the walls, with a conclusion after several lines
"N-th year after the incident"
That N is now 35
On the other hand, The guys on the staircase no longer have their youth;
but one can say that they cope well with time and the twists it gives
Fortunately for the ones who keep breathing after the incident,
their resources replenish automatically as time repeats itself
Everything, from the snacks in the vendo, to Carlos's stuff in his backpack,
multiplies to the point of commercial hoarding
They arrange everything, and live as if the staircase is their home
One level has all the things that multiply from the backpack:
books, red and black Sharpies, spools of thread, nail cutters, mp3 players, and headsets
Another level has a makeshift shower made of water bottles
Then another level has their garbage and bottles of digestive disregard
The rest of the levels are their rooms- one only has the skeletal remains of Carlos
to live in there, and a growing stack of money
The tall guy and the detective pass their time differently
The tall guy exercises a lot, using the stairs as his treadmill,
while the detective exercises his brain
They also spend time together,
as the tall guy asks the detective about his wife and children while he is training his upper body
Another exercise for the tall guy is lifting the detective up and down the stairs,
as the detective cannot walk anymore
On the other hand, the other side of the city is the very opposite of the staircase scenario
The looping road has everything messy on it: broken bottles of alcohol,
unfinished bags of potato chips, and a car decorated with trashed garments
The man and the kids' mother stay there
As a result of his poverty, the man has become Santa Claus
The mother, on the other hand, has no words nor sanity in her,
even when the man humps her in the car for pleasure
The boy, on the other hand, now a quiet man, stays on the prairie
Unlike his guardians, he lives in order
He has a shelter made of jumpsuits and his own cooking utilities
He makes food from cactus, and has a steady supply of water as time repeats itself
Thirty-five years of time looping itself,
the boy now has a mountain of inhalers in one part of the prairie
This time, he throws another one on it, and goes back to his shelter
On the way there, he sees the man leaning against his car with a drink in hand
He approaches him without a word, and stands before him, waiting for him to speak
The man talks to the boy
However, there is something important that he cannot remember
Blaming old age for it, he says, "That's how old we are, Daniel"
At that very moment, the detective, who is lying down and has been repeating his name to himself,
spurts out the very same words as the man says
"That's how old we are, Daniel"
In a flash of insight, the detective repeats the words to himself,
and in a flash of insight, calls out for the tall guy
The tall guy screams back in complaint, as his watch tells him it is three in the morning
However, he still goes down to check on the detective
Unlike the man who cannot remember what he has to say to the boy, the detective remembers everything
However, he tells the tall guy that he will leave the earth as soon as he shares it
The tall guy finds that unreasonable, and turns around to go back to sleep
At that, the detective asks the tall guy to bring him to the mural
Aside from the tally of days,
another part of the wall exhibits everything about the detective's life
his wife and daughters and the important days they celebrate
However, the detective realizes that everything in the room is not real
Not one single thing is real about the identity he has
"I am Daniel " he exclaims as he scratches everything on the wall with a Sharpie
He confesses that the time loop happens because of him and that Carlos is a sacrifice to start it
Again and again, he yells his real name as memories consume him one by one
He remembers talking to a man about his mother whose grave the man is digging
He remembers calming that same old man on the ground
talking about living 35 years in a lake without a night
The story was when the man was a boy of 10
He went on a school field trip with his friend, but they missed their canoe
At that, an instructor offered to take them on a bamboo raft
However, they got into an accident, and his friend lost his life
For the next 35 years, he and the instructor sailed the lake in a time loop,
until the instructor told him about an eternal train he lived in, 35 years before they met
The instructor warned him to write down his name, or he'll forget as soon as he enters a red car
The instructor died soon after
Now, the detective remembers it, too
The man had told him the same thing about remembering his name,
and a patrol car he was not supposed to get into
He did not listen; and as a result, unintentionally created the loop in the staircase
He remembers it all now, and he finds himself saying the same warning to the tall guy
The tall guy should never take the elevator
For at first, one will be a victim trapped in the loop
Then, he will be the creator without his knowledge
That is how it goes if you enter the forbidden platform, and forget your name
Everything in the loop is an alternate reality, a parallel universe
The detective explains that whatever they do in the loop,
reflects the state of their true selves in real life
However, they will never be able to live that life
It's either they die in that loop along with the knowledge of it,
or they forget everything and create another one to live another 35 years
The movie ends with the tall guy leaving the lifeless detective
He gets on the elevator, and assumes a new identity
He is Karl, a hotel boy
A moment later, a newlywed couple enters; and he guides them to their room
But before they can even get closer to their room, the tall guy releases a bee
It stings the groom, and at that very moment, an explosion resounds
The tall guy creates another looping incident without his knowledge
This time, the bride will go through it with him, and suffer the aging and loneliness there
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