Was the terrorist another time traveller? - Deja Vu (2006) Discussion

Nope.

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[–] MuggySphere 9 years ago

Hmmmmmmmm OK

I don't think I am the only one to think this and it's been mentioned here before ... It's just one of the things I think when I watch this movie.

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[–] howard_w13 9 years ago

Well; what made you think that the terrorist (first name Carroll BTW) traveled through time like Doug? He never had access to the time viewer/machine....

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The movie has a plot hole?!?
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[–] MuggySphere 9 years ago

I guess some of the stuff he says in the interrogation... I knew he didn't have a time machine or access to one but it's just one of those niggly thoughts that you get...

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[–] howard_w13 9 years ago

I think it was more because that he may had crossed paths with Doug and may have even killed him (yet here he is sitting across from the person that he thought he murdered. Not too sure on that though; I'll have to see the film again....)

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The movie has a plot hole?!?
EVERY FRIGGIN' MOVIE HAS A FRIGGIN' PLOT HOLE!!!!!

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[–] MuggySphere 9 years ago

Actually how would that have worked?

How could he have killed Doug yet sitting in front of him in the interrogation? Did multiple Dougs travel back in time?

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[–] howard_w13 9 years ago

Yes. As for how many I'm not sure but it's quite possible that a previous Doug could have encountered Carroll at least once.

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The movie has a plot hole?!?
EVERY FRIGGIN' MOVIE HAS A FRIGGIN' PLOT HOLE!!!!!

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[–] MuggySphere 9 years ago

Wow that's pretty freaky.

Pity it's not directly addressed in the movie.

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[–] kimasabe90035-1 9 years ago

If you watch movie a few more times, it will make more sense. Denzel is the only one who traveled back in time. Before he did though, he got some key info from bomber that he later used against him to stop the catastrophe.

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[–] jmbwithcats 9 years ago

The bomber speaks in a sort of fanatical prophetic way which could make one believe he's a time traveler, but he's really just a nut, sometimes I think he was picking up some kind of weird... crossed signal through time and space which screwed him up in the head in the first place though... it makes one wonder about the way fanaticism might get started?

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[–] jwlarch-684-929806 9 years ago

Great movie. Carroll wad experiencing deja vu while being interrogated in one time line we see in the movie. He feels he knows Denzel but not sure why. He feels deja vu in a different time line at the near end of the movie when he says this is not supposed to happen. The only way to sort this movie out is to realize we see 3 different time lines. 1 with the ferry blowing up, paula Patton dying and Denzel investigating and time travelling. 2 with paula living but Denzel dying saving the ferry. And 3, the last scene we see, with paula living and Denzel alive with only deja vu about her -he did not participate in saving the ferry or time traveling. Alternate time lines are infinite. Free will exists in every time line bu t every choice results in another time line.

Just my thoughts - fun to think about.

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[–] the_notorious_bid 9 years ago

Well, I sorta agree!

Does Deja Vu, in general, mean that you are picking up on an alternate time-line? If so, this would explain any aspect of this movie, any event in our lives where we seem to feel some sort of Deja Vu AND... Dianne Warwick's song!

But seriously...

This would mean that Oerstadt didn't have to be a time traveler. He just had to experience precognition (Deja Vu) more highly than the average person OR he could just be a nut (as others have suggested).

I have watched the movie several times and for the most part, the dialogue is "tight" in that almost everything is explained. Every time that I watch it, though, I see something different. Maybe if I watch it a few more times, I'll TOTALLY agree with you!

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[–] alx9 (72) 7 years ago

The funny thing is with the ferry not blowing up, Denzel could not have gone back to stop it. And if he didn't go back what stopped the ferry from blowing up?

It's kind of like Pinocchio saying "my nose will grow now". If his nose grows we know he told a lie, but if his nose grows he told the truth and it should not grow.

That's why time travel movies always have paradoxes that logically do not work. Science takes the easy way out with the multi-verse concept - the idea that infinite new timelines are constantly being spawned. Certainly removes time travel paradoxes, but only helpful in time travel movies that have infinite run lengths.

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[–] sun_scryer 9 years ago

The terrorist is military, and there's no way that there's only one time machine in New Orleans. There are probably an umpteen number of time machines being used by the military to stop major events.

And it's possible that the whole moie is related to a 'stop hitler and something worse happens' event.

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[–] Lucy9596 9 years ago

The terrorist is military

He tried to enlist but was rejected. So no, he wasn't military. Nice theory though.

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