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(2009) New realities, Dordrecht, Springer.
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.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-78891-2_43
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Marineo, F. (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, pp. 186-189.
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