Veja Du

[digitaldiscipline]

Some peculiar conflation of influences last night... catching part of what I can only assume to be the cinematic mistake that was "Deja Vu" on my flight back from PHX and seeing the trailer for "Next" ...

The protagonist sees how people used to be, and his compatriots are Lemmy from Motorhead and the guy who played Sabretooth (both of them relatively caveman-looking motherfuckers, to save on SFX makeup, I suppose). No idea what the plot tension was supposed to come from, but the leading man had to escape from some person(s) who wanted to prescribe & dispense Lead HV... with a cameo by the FBI agent from "Once Upon a Time in Mexico."

An exciting suburban-and-swamp chase later, and it was revealed that the entire time, seeing people as primitive was just the one guy's POV, he was incapable of seeing the shiny, clean-cut reality of the near future around him.

No fricking idea, but it was a very interesting and entertaining dream, in that Philip K. Dick kind of way.

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Crap. I kinda wanna see that. It sounds better than Total Recall, anyway...

[etcet.livejournal.com]

It lost a lot in the thumbnail retelling. It was a lot of semi-evolved looking long-haired guys in a recent suburban setting (the chase involved going mud-bogging in a '73 Blazer); the denouement with the death of the protagonist where the visual conceit dissolved and the contemporary world was revealed caught me by surprise, anyway.