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Deja Vu

Yesterday after work a few of us stopped in the cheapo movies to see Denzel Washington in Deja Vu. I really enjoyed the movie, because it had some unexpected twists and turns to it, although there were a few scenes when the acting was not quite believable. If you have not seen it, I suggest you stop reading now and come back to this after you have.

Denzel plays a government agent who is involved with solving a case, which appears to be a terrorist attack. It turns out that the job was done--the exploding of a pleasure boat with about 500 military people and their loved ones--by a psycho, as you know if you saw the movie.

The problem that I had with the movie relates very much to the moral questions in some philosophical problems that I posted earlier in the post The Trolley Car Problem and Related Moral Questions.

In the movie, Denzel time travels, to rescue a maiden in distress, since he is not just enamored with her, but feels somewhat responsible for her demise. Cool right--quantum physics and philosophy thrown into a the current topic of terrorism.

My problem is when Denzel is tearing down highways going after this psycho, while watching him through a device that takes one eye off the road and keeps it looking through a visor that has him see four days prior. This leaves Denzel one eyed to negotiate traffic, which he is doing a miserable job. At one point, he is actually driving down the road in the wrong direction, risking people's lives right and left ending in several accidents.

So the moral: Because he is an Agent and out to rescue fair damsel and hunt down this psycho, it gives him the right to cause numberous accidents, which may or may not cause other people's death and, at the very least severe injury, while he drives off on his continued chase in a vehicle that makes a hummer look like a VW.

And my reaction is: How patriotic!

I liked the movie, but I do not like the sumbliminal message that the audience was left with. What do you think?

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