It is said that memory is a good thing. The memory of having the fingers' burnt, either by fire or the stock market, may act as a deterrent for one to repeatedly parboil his body parts. But then, the body also prunes its memories, to erase off some apparently too painful memories. Nature also becomes selfish by erasing the painful thoughts of childbearing just to continue progeny. If not for lactation and contraceptive measures, the business of baby making will never cease anytime soon.
Are painful thoughts really detrimental to the development of a person? Franz Kafka would certainly say so. Almost throughout his short life, he could not come to terms with his father's abusive alpha male type of behaviour and helpless unhelpful mother. His unfulfilled career and failed marriages were attributed by him to the unresolved issues with his upbringing. Perhaps this chronically depressed state of mind must have made him susceptible to laryngeal tuberculosis.
By then, he tried to ventilate his feelings through his writings, which he requested to be burned after his death but luckily nobody listened. His three Kafkaesque books (Metamorphosis, Trial, Castle) have become the poster children for people living under oppressive regimes. I suppose his clear memories of his bitter past unquestionably became an experience some of the victims could relate to and be a bedrock of hope to sail the choppy seas.
Well, memory is the theme in this 2013 British movie starring James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson. It is a tale of an assistant art auctioneer with an intractable gambling habit, a hypnotherapist whom he seems to treat his addiction and a band of art thieves who plan a heist during an auction.
The auctioneer predictably is drawn as an accomplice but unfortunately forgets where he hid the loot after sustaining an intracranial haemorrhage. The impatient crooks waste no time to try to get our hero to remember, through might, persuasion or even hypnosis!
The plot gets twisted as the hypnotherapist tries to explore the crevices of his brain to give us a dizzying journey between timelines akin to scenes in 'Interception'. It will fall into place with a few coincidences and logic-defying chain of events.
Are painful thoughts really detrimental to the development of a person? Franz Kafka would certainly say so. Almost throughout his short life, he could not come to terms with his father's abusive alpha male type of behaviour and helpless unhelpful mother. His unfulfilled career and failed marriages were attributed by him to the unresolved issues with his upbringing. Perhaps this chronically depressed state of mind must have made him susceptible to laryngeal tuberculosis.
By then, he tried to ventilate his feelings through his writings, which he requested to be burned after his death but luckily nobody listened. His three Kafkaesque books (Metamorphosis, Trial, Castle) have become the poster children for people living under oppressive regimes. I suppose his clear memories of his bitter past unquestionably became an experience some of the victims could relate to and be a bedrock of hope to sail the choppy seas.
Well, memory is the theme in this 2013 British movie starring James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson. It is a tale of an assistant art auctioneer with an intractable gambling habit, a hypnotherapist whom he seems to treat his addiction and a band of art thieves who plan a heist during an auction.
The auctioneer predictably is drawn as an accomplice but unfortunately forgets where he hid the loot after sustaining an intracranial haemorrhage. The impatient crooks waste no time to try to get our hero to remember, through might, persuasion or even hypnosis!
The plot gets twisted as the hypnotherapist tries to explore the crevices of his brain to give us a dizzying journey between timelines akin to scenes in 'Interception'. It will fall into place with a few coincidences and logic-defying chain of events.
