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My Mind Playing Tricks On Me (Patreon)

Published:
2023-01-24 04:01:03
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2023-02

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So a few weeks ago, I wrote about Through the Olive Trees, and as far as I was concerned it was my first viewing of it. Guess what?

I was going through my 2014 viewing log, mostly to record some titles to Letterboxd. And a lot of them I barely remember. Like something called Anna which I guess was retitled Mindscape, starring Taissa Farmiga? Or a bunch of Korean films, such as A Fresh Start, Gyeongju, or Confession? Some TIFF stuff, like a Kazakh film called The Owners, or some Norwegian thing called Out of Nature? 

Am I losing my mind?

Anyway, it seems I watched Through the Olive Trees in May of 2014, and had (still have) no recollection of doing so.

Do you ever comb through your old logs, if you keep them? Are you ever shocked at things you apparently watched but couldn't describe with a gun to your head?

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Anonymous

I do this sometimes (although my pre-WordPress blog is now only available on the Wayback Machine). Often, I'd see a cluster of films at a director's retrospective but forget exactly which ones I saw, especially if they were fairly minor.

Anonymous

This happens to me all the time, but I have a notoriously poor memory. Works out well sometimes, a subsequent viewing of a film can feel like the first time! Other times, there'll be a sequence or a shot that seems familiar, prompting me to look at Letterboxd and discover that there was good reason for that. But there are still times I have absolutely no memory of seeing something. I recently watched a mediocre Douglas Fairbanks silent only to discover I'd seen it already when I went to log it on Letterboxd. Life's too short to be watching uninspiring movies multiple times!

Steven Carlson

All the time. It's especially prevalent if you watch a lot of mid-to-low-tier kung fu films.

Anonymous

All the time! Not just with films I've watched, but ones I've *written* about! Somone was telling me about a film I wrote about and i was convincing them I hadn't heard of anything like that!

Anonymous

I remember every single film I watched in 1992 (the first year I kept a log), but have forgotten fully half of the films that I reviewed for The A.V. Club and The Dissolve less than a decade ago.