On the problem of perspective in memory

Reyes 2022-04-04 09:01:08

In fact, when I first started watching, I discovered that the memory is a bug in the third-person perspective, but I feel that this bug can actually be rounded back.

There are many times in the film to explore the process of memory, let's call it "recollection", almost all "recollections" in the film are in the third-person perspective, but only once is in the first-person - Uncle Wolf and his assistant are in the prosecutor's office. The time when the unconscious prisoner was interrogated there. Why are all other "recollections" in the third person, but this time "recollections" are in the first person? Because there is a very special place this time: the machine used this time is an old machine brought by the government from the army. From the communication between Uncle Wolf and the prosecutor in the movie, it can be seen that the technology of this machine is backward, even We can think that this machine is inferior to Uncle Wolf's machine and other machines.

So will the setting be like this: in addition to visual, auditory, tactile and other senses, the human brain also has the ability to perceive things around it, but people themselves cannot feel it. The information of this spatial perception will be related to visual and auditory information The information is stored in memory together. The machine in the army is an old machine, and it can only present "recollection" through visual and auditory memory, etc., and Uncle Wolf's machine has been developed. The technology of "recalling" is presented, so Uncle Wolf and the others have seen two different "recollections" - the first-person "recalling" of the old army machine and the third-person "recalling" of Uncle Wolf's own machine.

Personally, I think that if the director and screenwriter didn't plan to fix this bug from the beginning, the first-person "Remembrance" would not appear at all. It's impossible to shoot a first-person "Remembrance" without realizing this bug, and of course not. It is ruled out that the scene was the first or last "recall" scene. The director realized the bug after filming but was too lazy to fix it or couldn't fix it.

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Reminiscence quotes

  • Nick Bannister: Memories are like perfume. Better in small doses.

  • Emily 'Watts' Sanders: Missing people is part of this world. Without that sadness, you can't taste the sweet.

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