After watching Momento on Tuesday night I was exhausted. It
was a great film in the sense that you couldn’t watch it lazily or you would
get lost. It was very interesting and intense. I like how this movie relates to
Simulacra, because in the movie Leonard Shelby has this unstable source of
history that he operates on for memory. Because he remembers things be
photograph he is literally remembering things from the perception of both who
took the photo and who wrote the caption. This while notion of his unstable
history related to “real” life because our history, especially with the
development in media and communication is created or reported through
essentially pictures with captions. An
example of this was the ”Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” photo. This picture was
used to promote the United States in the army, because we bravely rose our flag
during a Battle of Iwo Jima this picture went to win a Pulitzer prize and is
imbedded in history as one the greatest war photos. This photo was actually
staged a smaller flag was raised and a photographer wanted to retake the
picture for Leather Neck magazine.
This moment in history was created then captioned to symbolize the winning of
the Battle for Iwo Jima (which went on for two months after the picture was
taken) this is just an example of the unstable history told through perception. This image was simulated it feigns to have this reality of war, it mask and denatures reality.
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