![]() With Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry have created a film whose entire purpose is to blur and fade, a self-erasing tribute to the fragility of memory and of love. Murnau in Shadow of the Vampire, explained, "We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory, but our memory will neither blur nor fade." ![]() It's hardly surprising, then, that cinema has often been described as a kind of synthetic memory. Our specific memories, by contrast, are primarily visual and auditory, not unlike a movie playing in the mind's eye. Yes, a scent may on occasion provoke an emphatic, unmediated recollection, but it is typically an imprecise one-a general period in one's life rather than a particular moment. ![]() It's often said that smell is the sense most closely tied to memory.
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