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* [[Switch to English]]: Claire variously speaks French and English, and also some German. She frequently switches to English to converse with others.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Partially averted, as GPS is common in automobiles, and computers (from desktops and laptops to handheld microcomputers the size of a wallet), digital technology is shown to connect people all over the world. However, everybody still uses public telephones (granted they take credit cards and have a video screen, and there is also a system called "video fax"), and nobody in the movie seems to own a cell phone.
** Another amusing detail in the movie is what media replaces audio cassette tapes in the year 1999. Instead of CDs or [[
* [[Truth Serums]]: A favorite tactic of Bert the Bounty Hunter; Claire being dosed with a truth drug provides two very amusing scenes (one in Moscow as she chatters in English to a bunch of annoyed Russians, and another in Australia when, to avoid revealing information about Sam/Trevor, she answers his interrogations in her native French, which Bert, an English-speaking Australian, cannot understand).
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: in the year 1999, we will have talking GPS in our cars, and carry sophisticated wallet-sized computers in our pockets, but everyone still uses public [[Video Phone|(video) phones]]. The setting was handled very effectively though, and the film still holds up well to modern viewers.
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