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Deja Reviewer
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Deja Reviewer is a personal blog at dejareviewer.com about culture and writing. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for film analysis of structure, such as the palindromic midpoint reversal in WarGames and the chiasmus in Robocop. Commenters cite it as a source for those points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I am the Deja Reviewer, and I'm here to point out the similarities in movies that seemingly have little to do with each other. You know, those movies that you watch and the whole time something in the back of your mind keeps saying, "I've seen this before." I also talk about bad movies with…
What Hacker News says?
Here is a nice review of this movie, showing its symmetry / palindromic feature (there is a turning point right in the middle off it, and the movie plot kinda reverses itself till the end) : https://dejareviewer.com/2015/08/12/shall-we-play-a-game-let... In a movie full of brilliant ideas, I think WarGames’ use of Tic-Tac-Toe as a metaphor for the futility of a nuclear war is its best. When equally matched powers wi…
Comment linking /2015/08/12/shall-we-play-a-game-lets-see-how-symmetrical-wargames-is/
on “Tell HN: WarGames (1983) is mind-blowing”Submitted RoboCop Is an Almost Perfectly Symmetrical Film as a story · 19 points
HN discussionMy favourite example of this is.. Robocop! https://dejareviewer.com/2014/04/29/cinematic-chiasmus-roboc...
Comment linking /2014/04/29/cinematic-chiasmus-robocop-is-almost-perfectly-symmetrical-film/
on “Chiastic Structure”