{"id":17189,"date":"2025-02-14T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17189"},"modified":"2025-02-12T20:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T01:43:45","slug":"deja-vu-2006-tony-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17189","title":{"rendered":"Deja Vu (2006, Tony Scott)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denzel investigates a terror-bombing, focusing on a dead hotgirl (Ghost Protocol<\/a><\/em>‘s Paula Patton) who apparently died before the explosion. He meets twenty round-faced white guys who all look the same, then gets pulled into a super-surveillance team with a magic technology that can see anywhere in the city four-and-a-quarter days ago, so they track Paula’s past in hopes of finding the bomber. This works out, but Denzel realizes he can influence the past through their portal and tries to stop the bombing before it happens.<\/p>\n

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“We’re combining all the data we’ve got into one fluid shot” – Scott loves a fluid shot. Branching universe theory: “is she alive or is she dead?” Some excellent pre-Tenet<\/em> mind-twisters, including an incredible car chase where Denzel sees the current time through one eye and the past in the other.<\/p>\n

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Featuring Jesus Caviezel as the mad bomber, Adam Goldberg as the Jon-Wurstery scientist, Matt Craven as Denzel’s doubly-doomed partner. I worried this would be a dumb\/bad movie reclaimed by the vulgar auteurists, but I have to admit it’s extremely awesome and I had the best time watching it.<\/p>\n

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Huber and Peranson in Cinema Scope (see also: John<\/a> and Jake<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Deja Vu<\/em> is upfront about the questionable nature of the whole government-funded enterprise; this is not about clearing your name (as in [Minority Report<\/em>]). Saving the woman being watched, Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton), is not the goal, rather trailing her past will help the agents solve a terrorist bombing with echoes of both 9\/11 and Oklahoma City. The projected futility of the investigation’s outcome for Claire makes Carlin’s obsession with her all the more poignant, but like in Vertigo<\/em> the voyeuristic and necrophiliac aspects of his romantic feelings are foregrounded. “I get the weird feeling I’m being watched,” reads an entry in Claire’s diary after an uncomfortable Jumbotron-surveyed shower … More effective is his touching prior assertion to Claire: “Don’t you remember we held hands once?” It is also quite sinister, since this happened during her autopsy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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