Wayne, Jenni and I went to see Wanted this weekend. I absolutely loved it.
I really liked the amount of choice that the characters exhibited in the fight / chase scenes. Bullets are flying, cars are crashing and the characters are moving as though through a choreographed dance. It’s possible to simply dismiss their flipping cars and dodging bullets as mere Hollywood magic, but what if we lived in a world where this was actually possible.
The explanation given in the movie is the characters have hyperactive adrenal grands that kick their perceptions into high gear. Scientists are doing some interesting experiments on time perception that suggest that time perception is, in fact, malleable:
There’s two components to the film though. Not only are the characters capable of perceiving a large amount of information, they are also capable of acting on it reasonably. This is directly counter to the general effects of adrenaline which tends to be really bad for decision making.
