Monday, April 10, 2017
100 - Hiroshima Mon Amour, 1959, France. Dir. Alain Resnais.
Things never stop at night in Hiroshima.
It is a city that keeps on moving.
Keeps on moving because it is a big city.
Or keeps on moving because it is trying to forget the past.
Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents.
That's what she says.
She has her own memories to forget.
She is from France.
When she was young she dated a German soldier.
It was wrong to date a German soldier. The Germans were doing wrong things.
She was shamed. Placed in a cellar. Had her head shaved. Abuse as punishment.
She grew up in Nevers. When she leaves here she is going back to Paris.
She is never going back to Nevers. Never Nevers.
She is here to film a film. To act in a film.
While here she sees the hospital. The museum. She is curious.
He denies her. You saw nothing.
He has his own memories to forget.
He lives here. He is an architect.
He asks her lots of questions. He is curious.
What does Hiroshima mean to you in France?
The end of the war. Completely.
And then fear.
And then indifference.
He responds.
The whole world rejoiced. And you rejoiced with it.
The film is finished. She has a flight back. He wants to see her again. She wants to move on.
He wants to see her again. She lets him.
They continue to talk.
About memory and suffering and forgetting.
She stops at a bar called Casablanca.
He follows her inside.
He wants to see her again. She wants to see him again.
They may never see each other again.
She loves him. He loves her. She names him. He names her.
Hiroshima. That's your name.
Yes. And your name is Nevers.
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