In "Father Trapped in Time", the chaotic image and time and space tell about memory itself, and the memory narrative forms a causal relationship with it. Memory narration also contains various dislocations, fictions and repetitions, which are not the essence of film narration, but the way of narration that points to memory is the way of story organization of the recaller himself.
The first is the misconstruction in the memory narrative. When an individual recalls the events he has experienced, information such as time, place, and person appear wrong and confused in the memory, such as recalling what one person did as another person did. In the film, both men appear as husbands to Anthony's daughter, and we don't know until the end that one of them is a nursing home medical worker. The man showed up in the apartment living room before dinner and beat Anthony, but when his daughter came out of the kitchen, it was Paul. What happened in this time and space was misconstrued in Anthony's memory. He confused Paul, who beat people, as a nurse in a nursing home. Of course, he may have been subjected to some kind of violent persecution in the nursing home, or the incident in the nursing home was Anthony's memory was replaced by time and space.
The second is the fiction in the memory narrative. This is very common in Alzheimer's patients, "the patient forgets about a personal experience and fills in and replaces it with a completely fictitious story, and then believes. Under the guidance of the questioner, the series is rich and vivid and absurd, but it is instantly forgotten." There is a problem that is always difficult to explain in the film, that is, whether the daughter is going to Paris, and whether she is going to Paris. In Anthony's memory, the question has taken several turns, and the repeated presentations may contain his own assumptions. When he can't sort out the original appearance of things, he will process and reorganize the remaining memory to make it conform to his wishes.
The last is the repetition in the memory narrative. There are always some special moments or events in individual memory, people recall these moments consciously or unconsciously, and these scenes are repeated in the mind like a drama. The most exciting part of the film is that the dialogue between the daughter and Paul appears twice in Anthony's memory narrative. Before dinner, Anthony, who came out of the room, saw them arguing about whether to send him away, and Anthony's appearance stopped their discussion. However, the three of them had an argument in the middle of the meal. After Anthony got up and left, the daughter and Paul repeated the argument before dinner. Anthony appeared at the door of the restaurant again, and their argument stopped at that point again. This scene reappeared the same memory before and after, it became a special fragment left after Anthony's memory degenerated, and this special memory appeared repeatedly in his mind. Yet there are subtle differences in each recall, such as the clean utensils the first time and the food leftovers in the second time, and it is this difference that indicates that the scene is a repetition in the character's memory rather than the film's narrative. repetition on.
Whether misconstructed, fictitious, or recurring memories, they are presented from the first point of view of the characters in the story. The chaotic memory narrative is associated with the disease, an individual memory that is constantly forgotten is revealed, and the authority of Anthony's memory is gradually dispelled in the disease. The sense of chaos created by video time and space and memory narrative is not for the audience to think rationally, but to experience the process of erasing individual memories in a direct and perceptual way.
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