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In Alain Resnais’ film Hiroshima Mon Amour, set ten years after the end of World War II, Elle, the protagonist, is “possessed” by her traumatic memories and events that she has endured, which leads to her passionate love affair with Lui in Hiroshima. ... There is tension in love and life between Lui of Hiroshima and Elle of Nevers because history repeats itself and love cannot work out between enemies because of the reluctance by Elle, which stems from her past relationship with her love from Germany. ... She carried around her story and never (funny how her name is Nevers) told anyone about her past until she met Lui and Hiroshima. As soon as she travels to Hiroshima to make a movie about peace, and comes in contact with Lui, the enemy, and she immediately falls in love. ... She was scared to forget the past, which ultimately lead to history repeating itself between the tainted love of Nevers and Hiroshima. ... It is hard to love someone and then lose them, which is why Nevers is mentally trying to replace her lover and her enemy with the newfound Hiroshima. ... ” She experiences the pain of not only forgetting her first love, but she also foresees the forgetting of Hiroshima. ... She is now aware of what Hiroshima really means, rather than her trying to experience it in the beginning of the film. Through he story of Nevers in three flashback sequences, she tries to replace in her memory her traumatic past with the images of Lui and Hiroshima’s destruction and aftermath with ground zero. ... She must leave Hiroshima, even after his pleas for her to stay. ...
Hiroshima, though not in Japan during. Even though the film is not in his point of view, the audience can depict that Japan has forgotten France or Nevers, a symbolic representative of the allied France because Hiroshima was able to fall in love with her.
Approximate Word count = 1473
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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