All those things and places that becomes a part of one's life and history are made into permanent objects of one's memory. If the metaphysical exists between subject and object, then Pamuk wishes to illustrate how the metaphysical exists through one's memories which are conjured up by experience of objects. Gee gives life to what Kracauer once called the "dead world of things," by sharing an intimate study of the trans formative and metaphysical properties of objects. In itself, it proves cinema as a form of transformation, as the film too becomes an object of memory. Based on the book and further writings of Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Innocence of Memories is a reflection on the trans formative potential of objects and memory, of space and time, and of reality and fiction. Objects suddenly felt alive, as if breathing, a phenomenon held fast in the heart of the film. Objects seen before suddenly took on a new light, informed by my newfound understanding of the intertwining of one's soul and conscience with memory. Written for Next Projection Seeing Innocence of Memories provided one of the few times that I've left a theater in awe, as if life's essence had shifted in those past 90 minutes of pure cinema.
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