Hiroshima mon amour Excerpt 6: Continuation—forgetting; the lover’s death; the recovery (5’35”).
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Hiroshima mon amour Excerpt 6: 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, followed by the slap the Japanese man gives her. What happens on the level of sound? 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?) |