Memory and the Movies


Published April 5, 2004

The New Atlantis, Number 5, Spring 2004, pp. 85-90.

The redemptive and destructive power of memory is a regular theme at the movies—from recent classics like Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to the Japanese film Afterlife about what it means to live forever with one’s favorite memories. James Bowman offers a survey of what movies can teach us about the nature of memory, and why only memories that bind us to others can make us truly happy.

[Click here to read this article from the Spring 2004 issue of The New Atlantis.]


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