Tom never wears a helmet while riding his bike. He was on his bike when he died a year ago, making it reasonable that her conjuring of him often places him in the last position he assumed when he was alive. After learning the twist, this makes perfect sense. Not every single time, but quite frequently. Tom is almost always on his bike when Kate finds him. In that case, it’s quite plausible that they wouldn’t know him.) Kate always finds him when he’s on his bike (Unless he has been dead for a year, of course. While it’s believable that the volunteers during the evenings wouldn’t know the overnight workers, it is extremely unlikely that none of the patrons - who are pretty much always around, as Kate comes to know them well as she continues volunteering - would have met him. When Kate goes to find Tom at the homeless shelter, nobody has heard of him. Nobody at the homeless shelter recognizes Tom’s name It’s only when she’s alone that he finds her. While that’s not particularly striking at first because he “works nights” and shows up unannounced, he does enter the Christmas shop - it just only happens in the scenes when Santa is not there. While other characters like Santa and Kate’s friends know that Tom exists, none of them ever meet him in person. Kate is the only person who ever speaks to or interacts with Tom Had he accidentally bumped into someone, would they have walked right through him? We never get an answer, as he manages to successfully avoid contact. Why, she asks (and so do we), is he so weird? It’s only once the truth comes out that this finally makes sense - he is doing everything he can to avoid running into people, since he is not actually physically present. Tom really avoids running into peopleĮarly on in the movie, once Kate agrees to go out with Tom following his relentless pressure (including showing up at her work after she’s already rejected him, which feels more than a bit aggressive), she marvels at something strange about him: He does a goofy, loopy dance maneuver as they walk down the street. “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart,” is literally the exact plot. While viewers are led to guess that the movie is called Last Christmas because Kate repeatedly says it’s her favorite song (and it plays at least three times from different toys in the Christmas shop), the twist reveals the title’s true meaning - and the significance of the song being Kate’s favorite. In hindsight, the movie’s title is a dead giveaway. Here were all the hints to the huge twist in Last Christmas.

TIME has compiled the details that paved the way for the film’s twist, as well as the plot holes and moments of misdirection that seem to muddle it. However, it remains unclear whether Tom is a ghost or just a figment of Kate’s imagination.

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