Weird clock- related stuff....
Why are all clocks on this film at the same time (3:33)?
shareanother of De Palma's numerous clues that it was all a dream.
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De Palma said it is because that is the time that she fell asleep in the bath tub. Therefore the entire dream took place at 3:33.
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Didn't you all notice the De Ja Vue posters everywhere - by the church at the airport near the pharmacy - I feel like I have been here before....... The last look at the clock before she fell asleep in the bath and the fish tank overflowing gave it away right at the start of her dream. Not a bad film but I was always chastised when I wrote stuff like that back at school - all of that was a dream what a cheap way of getting out a story you find difficult to end.....
shareTime does not exist within dreams. You may be living an entire life, like Lily did for seven years, and yet wake up two seconds later.
De Palma used the aritstic approach to the happenings.
Also, did anyone notice that during the scene where Nicolas is being interrogated by the French policeman, you see them facing each other, with the clock on the wall in the foreground (3:33), and they actually raised the volume of the clock ticking away! At first it seemed inappropriate, but then I realized why DePalma did it.
shareAlso, did anyone notice that during the scene where Nicolas is being interrogated by the French policeman, you see them facing each other, with the clock on the wall in the foreground (3:33), and they actually raised the volume of the clock ticking away! At first it seemed inappropriate, but then I realized why DePalma did it.
Um . . . yes and just as importantly did you notice that the scene lasted a length that should have moved the hands on the clock past 3:33 but the clock remained unchanged?
Reminds me of a lyric from a U2 song (Unknown Caller):
I was lost between the midnight and the dawning
In a place of no consequence or company
3:33 when the numbers fell off the clock face
Speed dialling with no signal at all
Yeah, the Deja Vue's, the intervals of 7 years, that stuck-on-the-clock 3:33, that triangular shaped reflection at the end of the film, that child in the photo with a gleaming stone, the full water baptism -- not once but twice . . . . someone is trying to get through to her, help her along, help her get somewhere.
Gee, I wonder who, where and why?
I'd like to offer my explanation, but instead, I'll modify a quote from David Lynch's Inland Empire:
I suppose if it was 3:33, I'd think it was half past midnight. share