Cinematic encounters with memory in Thomas Vinterberg’s film the Hunt (2012)‎

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Memory empowers people with the faculty of retrieving and reconstructing past events to their consciousness, helping humanity maintain discoveries.

Thus, no one has to rediscover anew bits of knowledge and skills acquired earlier.

Whether memories are always permanent and fully faithful to the real experience is an essential question that this article attempts to discuss.

One apt way of artistically representing memory, its alterations, and social manifestations is cinema which is the perfect art that can intrinsically embrace memories through motion pictures.

Cinema itself intertwines with one's memory processes to build up an individualized vision and appreciation of life.

In particular, Thomas Vinterberg's film The Hunt (2012) portrays a child's claims on abuse, an event that resurfaces from her memories.

A psychological study of themes in the film reveals much on how memory is associated with more than known fallibility.

It is rather susceptible to manipulation and transformation into false memories as framed by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus.

Society proves to be the provider of misinformation, suggestions, and behavior’s that heavily influence the workings of one's memory.