The death toll in the newspapers does not match the death toll of the bomber. The newspaper said the death toll was 250, and the bomber said "I saved 348 people."
This is not a bug.
In the bomber's perspective, the newspapers of the future reported an explosion that killed 598 people. The bomber, who is an agent, travels back to the time of the explosion, changes the explosion, and the death toll becomes 250, the newspaper reports. This report was made into a newspaper clipping by the bomber as a "deed of glory".
Question 1: Why not just stop the explosion? 250 people are dead!
Answer 1: Fatalism, explosions are destined to happen and cannot be stopped.
Answer 2: If it is blocked, the timeline is refreshed, and the bomber cannot prove that he has prevented all this. Just as he said he saved 348 people, there is no evidence.
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Under the above fatalistic setting, the explosion cannot be stopped. What the male protagonist decides to do is to be the bomber himself, so that the number of victims will be reduced.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist shoots and kills the bomber, because killing one person can stop the explosion and save the lives of 11,000 people. This choice is also doomed, the cycle cannot be broken, and the male protagonist will grow into a bomber and continue to fulfill the mission of sacrificing a few people to save more people.
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