Film can be an exciting way to explore the intricacies of memory for the April 2018 A to Z Blog Challenge.
In an earlier post, we included a glimpse of Rashoman, the film focused on how memory is processed through human experience, resulting in the the difficult truth, that no two people have the exact same memory of an event even if they were at the same place at the same time for the same event.
Some other films that brilliantly show us in stark or even humorous ways the mysteries of memory are (in alphabetical order):
Blade Runner (original and 2049–Are inserted memories real? Are we human without them? The plot of replicants who are born with given memories, but then learn to create their own.
Finding Nemo–Dory shows the challenges of people living with damaged memory.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind–the pain of memory, but how much worse we would be without it?
Manchurian Candidate–Can memories be erased and replaced? And what does that make us capable of?
Memento–considered one of the truest accounts of the challenges of amnesia
Vertigo–the dangers of being unable to give up on the memory of love.
I know there are many more (e.g Citizen Kane, Fifty First Dates, Inception, Total Recall, The Bourne Trilogy).
Why don’t you tell me your favorite and why?
That is basically a list of films that I love to watch. Great choices, and interesting link between them all.
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Thanks, Iain. Movies always make for a fun blog post I think.
I love this kind of film, especially the thrillers with a psychological element. Before I go to Sleep (also a book) and Unknown (starring Liam Neeson) are both good.
While I picked the list for the topic, they are also films I enjoy too.