Deja Vu

Tricks of the light tell their own story. The girl is animated, as girls tend to be, when they feel safe and nurtured. The boy is a good listener. He watches in black-and-white when a spectral image moves away from her face. It is she, but in colour, this other self that appears to exist in future time, not like years ahead, but moments.

"I'm seeing things before they happen," he says. She remains in monochrome and does not understand. They are in a pub, drinking. "I know what you say before you say it," he says. She laughs, because it's nonsense, and, being a girl, she's right. He continues to see snatches of her beyond the now and it freaks him out.

Chris Thompson wrote, edited and directed Deja Vu. The concept may be simple, but the application is full of confidence. David Amos provides an excellent musical soundtrack. The shock ending works well.

If the future can be predicted, is it possible to make changes? This fascinating quandry must wait for Deja Two.