Hiroshima mon amour Excerpt 8: Continuation—forgetting; the lover’s death; the recovery (5’35”).
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Hiroshima mon amour Excerpt 8: Continuation—forgetting; the lover’s death; the recovery (5’35”).
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| 1. | SHE asks for more to drink when she realizes that she is beginning to forget her lover. Why is this ironic? |
| 2. | Discuss the sound effects while SHE recounts the death of her lover. What is striking here? What is the psychological significance of the treatment of sound here? |
| 3. | Why does the death of the German lover come almost at the end of the Frenchwoman’s tale? (Why is the chronology reversed?) |