Burning people: Saving Private Ryan includes a shot of a G.I. firing a flamethrower into a bunker containing German troops who, if I remember correctly, stagger out and topple over in flames. (I'm intrigued both to hear what the philosophical implications are behind all this but also by the fact that so many people can vividly recall examples. I wonder whether a call for incidents described in prose would elicit so many responses. Is it that these are visual memories or that the scenes are so visceral and shocking in the context of a first viewing? Or might there be another aspect, such as identification/projection/empathy?)
Nigel Morris
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