A PHOTO CAMERA, A RADIO AND A HIGH-TECH MECHANISM USED TO ERASE MEMORIES, OR HOW TO DECEIVE REALITY IN ROBIN WILLIAMS’ MOVIES
A PHOTO CAMERA, A RADIO AND A HIGH-TECH MECHANISM USED TO ERASE MEMORIES, OR HOW TO DECEIVE REALITY IN ROBIN WILLIAMS’ MOVIES

Summary/Abstract: A photo camera, a radio and a high-tech mechanism used to erase memories, or How to deceive reality in Robin Williams’ movies. We build reality whilst transforming it through the means of memory. This is common knowledge. What happens though when we intervene upon memory in a brutal way? When we try to change the past by projecting in it those things we would have liked to happen; when the world in which we live becomes one chance to overcome, through imagination, the closure of a world based on suicide and despair? We chose for this study three movies that we find to be most relevant for the given topic: Jakob the Liar (1999), directed by Peter Kassovitz, the story of a Polish Jew during the Second World War, who manages to save his community with the help of a non-existent radio, One Hour Photo (2002), directed by Mark Romanek, a movie in which a character named Sy Parrish is fantasizing about being the favourite “Uncle Sy” in a family he is obsessed with and The Final Cut (2004), directed by Omar Naim.

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