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| | JamesBowman.net | Movie Memories |
 | | One is that the movies are always and inevitably tempted by voyeurism, and exotic illnesses or injuries, including psychological ones, promise voyeuristic thrills a-plenty. |
 | | But memory is also shorthand for identity: we are our memories in a way that everyone instantly understands and that the movies have been happily exploiting at least since the classic amnesia flick, Random Harvest of 1942. |
 | | Memory, that is, may carry with it the need for revenge, as in Memento and Ararat, but here it also carries with it the need for forbearance, hope and charity. |
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