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Question About Person Taping Themselves...

posted 14 years ago by crazykaese
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Why, when they show the tape to the other people, do the people who are sharing their memory see themselves?

When Michael taped his memories for his wife (i.e., their wedding, when they are talking on their dates, when he whispers to the statue), he is facing the camera--you see his face in the memory. And Lillian on the death tape, she's facing the camera when she's talking to people.

It's that persons memory, shouldn't it be from their point of view (and not include their body in the memory).

Other than that, I've always loved this movie.

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[–] asgard-5 14 years ago

You know how people are always me-me-me ) If everyone percieved reality in the same way that'd be boring as hell.

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[–] westal_sage 12 years ago

Yeah I hear ya, OP - I have wondered that, too. Maybe it's as simple as trying to, and being able to, remember your own memories from a different perspective. Like thinking back to a party you were at, and thinking about it like you're watching from a little ways back so that you're part of the scene.

[–] arete_1 12 years ago

That's the fundamental flaw of this movie, you can not step outside yourself to record yourself in your own memories, especially ones you half remember which of course you'd never be able to record clearly even of other people. Human memory works very differently than the pseudo science "human camera" proposed in the movie.

[–] richard-III 11 years ago

No flaw. Those were memory recordings, and not sense recordings like in the beginning of the film. Mike and Lillian were experimenting with memory recordings, when Mike recorded some of Karen. Later on he gave Karen a tape with some of his own memories recorded.

A memory can be broader than a point-of-view. Just like one can dream and see oneself in that dream sometimes.

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