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False remembering, impossible vision
déjà vu and contemporary cinema
pp. 186-189
Abstract
Déjà vu (2006), directed by Tony Scott, is a film which, despite its title, never deals with the most stimulating keypoints regarding the eponymous perceptive phenomenon. It is just an ordinary action movie in which a few agents work with a revolutionary instrument that allows a sort of visual analysis of previous events. The technology adopted by these agents is related to a wormhole that offers them the possibility of examining the past, in order to re-live traumatic or violent situations (here, an explosion on a boat) modifying their developments. Utilising complex devices, they witness only once, and with a delay of four days and six hours, a number of events. But this is a superim position of different time levels, nothing strictly referring to déjà vu.
Publication details
Published in:
Ascott Roy, Bast Gerald, Fiel Wolfgang, Jahrmann Margarete, Schnell Ruth (2009) New realities: being syncretic. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 186-189
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-78891-2_43
Full citation:
Marineo Franco (2009) „False remembering, impossible vision: déjà vu and contemporary cinema“, In: R. Ascott, G. Bast, W. Fiel, M. Jahrmann & R. Schnell (eds.), New realities, Dordrecht, Springer, 186–189.