And so do Nick and his trusty number two, Watts ( Thandiwe Newton), who are monitoring those memories, recording them on small square synthetic files.īeyond that, however, the entire movie, which was written and directed by Lisa Joy (the co-showrunner of “Westworld”), can often feel like a device for transporting the audience back to memories from the pop-culture past.
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The sensation of déjà vu figures prominently in “Reminiscence.” We watch people’s memories unfold as if on a giant movie screen, eavesdropping on their most intimate moments.
When the world starts to overheat and drown, the movie implies, our memories of better days may be all we have. It’s technology that makes the time-tripping possible, but the decaying landscape around them that makes it desirable. Immersed in its calming water, with a virtual-reality headset on, they’re able to travel back into their fondest memories.
In “ Reminiscence,” a sci-fi noir love story set in a climate-change dystopia that’s just short of the apocalypse enough to make Miami look like Venice with hotter nightclubs, Hugh Jackman plays Nick Bannister, a former soldier who runs a business in which people pay to float, unconscious, in a sensory-deprivation tank.
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