I saw this good movie last night, The Squid and the Whale. It is a very good movie about two brothers growing up in Park Slope Brooklyn in the 80s while their parents are going through a divorce. I'll leave others to do a proper review, but it is worth your time to go see it in your local arty theater.

In one part of the movie, some of the characters go to the movies. The screen flips entirely over to a scene in a classic 80s movie. You are watching the movie just like the characters are. But the thing is, the theater the characters were watching the movie, the Prospect Pavilion, was the same one I was actually in. For that brief moment, the characters and I were all sitting together in the same theater watching the same film. Heck, any of you who see the movie, will inadvertently find yourself in the same Prospect Pavilion seats.

I'm not sure what you would call that—existential, deja vu, mis en scene?—but I know that's never happened to me before. Maybe these things happen all time in L.A.