Deja vu

Watching this film should be clear about its focus. It should not be regarded as a science fiction film to emphasize some scientific causal logic, such as how did the watch get to Seymour? This is a question of whether there is a chicken or an egg first, and the film is not intended to focus on presenting this content to the audience.

In my opinion, the film is very successful in dealing with how Christopher turns time. In general, traversing movies will attach this traversing ability to some objects, machines, etc., and this film relies more on the protagonist. Faith and desire, which weaken the role of objects to a certain extent (of course the arrangement is important, but it is obviously in a lower position than the protagonist’s repeated meditations), and many transcendence movies themselves portray the protagonist as Inadvertently reversed time and space, but this film is the protagonist's own strong desire to return to the past.

So why does the protagonist have such a desire? I think the title of the film is a very good interpretation of this point-"Somewhere in Time" is an inexplicable and unclear feeling, which can be said to be an intuition. In our journey of life, many people have the feeling of deja vu. For example, I seem to have seen this place, and this person seems a bit familiar. . . This is a subtle, somewhat inexplicable feeling, and this film depicts this feeling more hazy. When the male protagonist meets the silver-filled heroine, this feeling must appear in his mind, so that he is willing to explore, understand, and even long to go back in time to meet and fall in love with the heroine. . . So I think the main purpose of this film is to explore and discover this inadvertent heart wave and complex psychological changes in this way of love that travels through time and space.

The film ends with a cruel ending. This is because in reality, although love can overcome secular vision and economic imbalance, it cannot break through the barriers of two different time and space. This is a kind of desperate love that cannot be realized in reality. Love, but this kind of love does exist, because it is a kind of spiritual love that transcends reality. Although the heroes and heroines are trapped by it, their love for each other transcends material barriers. This love will never stop because it exists beyond feasibility.

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