Seo-yeon’s consciousness is transported to Timeline 2, where her father (now alive) and mother are together, and she seems to be a much happier person. She was the one that caused the accident. A side note here – though she blames her mother for this accident, it is Seo-yeon who goes back to turn on the gas in the kitchen. Timeline 2: Saving The Fatherīased on the information Seo-yeon gives, Young-sook intercepts the gas explosion that would have killed Seo-yeon’s father. The moment a phone call is placed, the past has already drifted into a new path, a new future. To understand The Call, it’s critical to note that telephone conversations are happening between people from two different timelines. Remember, in the Prime Timeline, Young-sook never spoke to anyone from the future, no one warned her, she got killed by her stepmother. It’s essential to understand this – the phone call creates a rift in the timeline and Seo-yeon is talking to Young-sook from a new timeline. We’re not told how, but something about this phone connects Young-sook in 1999 to Seo-yeon in 2019. Seo-yeon has lost her mobile phone and hence pulls out an old cordless phone and plugs it in. The Prime Timeline: Understanding the Timelines With that, let’s go through each of the timelines one at a time. For the sake of The Call’s explanation, we’ll assume that Seo-yeon’s consciousness jumps from one timeline to the other. While scars come and go, her past memories don’t get altered.
Yet, the memories she retains is that of the very first timeline. In every new timeline, her life has been re-written. Seo-yeon is shown to move from one timeline to another. Ideally, significant changes to the past should have had cascading effects that resulted in the lead character no longer being in the same physical spot. The Call Korean Movie: Timeline Diagram (click to enlarge) The Call (Korean Movie): Plot ExplainedĪs I mentioned earlier, The Call many times ignores the concept of the Butterfly Effect. – Timeline 5: Young-sook kills the father.
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