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...movies mainly to be hypnotized, Hiroshima Mon Amour will seem even better the second time...
Resnais is the first director to have exploited this analogy systematically, making it a principle of his art. In Hiroshima (1959), his first full-length film, he employs this style to break radically with conventional narrative techniques...
...theme of Hiroshima is the insufficiency of memory. Memory is treacherous; it cannot, or will not, retain what is should. Neither can it be forced or faked. But, suggests Resnais, there is hope after all, for if worse comes to worst, memory can always be ignored...
...case in point: the heroine of Hiroshima, played by Emmanuelle Riva. For her, the bombing of Hiroshima was a dreadful example of man's mistreatment of man. It should be unforgettable to everyone. But unfortunately, owing to the elusive disposition of human memory, it isn't. Her solution at film's end: stop worrying about it, accept the affection of Eiji Okada (who has been having as much mnemonic trouble as she) and start...
...inclined to be critical about the movies you see, you may have second thoughts about the art of Hiroshima on seeing it again...