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by uzwi

From an interview with Alejandro Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 2000) in today’s Guardian—

“It’s when you are liberated from the narratives that we are so addicted to – plot twists and all that – when you liberate the images from that, the images have to say something,” he said. “Not by serving any narrative, but by just being what I found. The way you remember a film is never complete, you always remember flickers, images, moments. That’s the way our memory works. So, this is kind of a representation of how our memory works when we remember a film – it’s fragments of light and memory that are not related, but in a way they mean something, they hopefully make you feel something.”

Calculated return. Articulate theories of memory & the real. His process then & now. Why–it turns out–Amores Perros is one of my top ten films. Ever.