The spat106 short longform #25

Déjà vu

So anyway the National Party really loves roads don’t they, what a minute, didn’t I already do this last week? I sure did and that is a bit of déjà vu. The song Déjà vu by Beyoncé came before the phrase so that’s why when everyone heard that phrase, they were like “ Hey, I’ve heard this before” and they had actually heard it before because they had heard the song getting airplay on their favourite pop radio station. It was déjà vu to you my dear readers when I kept on using the word heard a lot in that previous sentence. Beyoncé is one of the greatest thinkers of our generation.

A way to successfully use déjà vu to one’s advantage is by doing a sequel to the original work and only doing minor changes, repackage it all up and see the money roll in. An example of this is Home Alone 2, where instead of Kevin being home alone in Chicago, he is hotel room alone in New York City. Some changes needed to be made to accommodate him being in New York but other than that it was pretty much the same film, it still made a bundle of cash and you’d still hope to see both in succession for a Christmas viewing treat because nothing says Christmas joy than a prepubescent boy only just avoiding being brutally assaulted by a couple of adult criminals.

Another sequel, although it was more different from its predecessor was Terminator 2 Judgement Day, that film was great and having just watched it again in re-released 3D version at the cinema on a limited release, it still holds up 26 years after it was initially released. The point of the paragraph was just to show off that I watched it again. The theme to Terminator 2 is the only thing I can beat box, the theme of it is the same as the theme of The Terminator but I don’t think that this counts as déjà vu because in French, the language of love and also of the French, it literally means “already seen” so does that apply to listening too?

Not meaning to be that person who spoils a film for people but if you hadn’t seen the Matrix in the 18 years since it was first released then that’s your goddamn fault, but an example of déjà vu was when they saw a cat walk in the same exact loop twice in a space of seconds. They actually described it as déjà vu and said that déjà vu means that there is a glitch in a matrix, which is effectively the world we live in but that’s really a simulation world as the real world is extremely stuffed up beyond repair. So taking out the fact the Matrix itself isn’t a real thing and the world we live in is real, does déjà vu still mean that’s some type of glitch happening in our world? No there isn’t, good that I’m here to clear that up.

Most scientists attribute the phenomenon of déjà vu to viewing the event happening presently in front of you but this then picks something from deep within your recesses of memory to a similar situation that happened in your past so you think you are seeing the exact thing happen again.. Therefore scientists have effectively debunked déjà vu right there . However the biggest confirmation that déjà vu doesn’t actually exist is by Split Enz, when they sang the song History Never Repeats. Sure they had to have a chorus in the song that repeated the phrase History Never Repeats many times over but that is the old classic Australian humour from them coming to the fore there.