![]() We can force the perspective of our life story, just as photographers can force perspective to tell a picture, or as this videographer forces a perspective to build his illusion. Just as the photographer imagined endless stories he could tell with the moon, there are endless ways we can look at the story of our own lives. This phenomenon plays out on daily in the way different news organizations report and color the same story, but rarely do we think of the power we hold for ourselves as authors and narrators of our own lives.Īs life plays out we feel that events occur through one lens, but the truth we can view the events from an infinite number of angles. ![]() During the Cold War the Soviet Union used propaganda to write current events the way they wanted them to be seen. Winston’s job in the novel 1984 is to rewrite history for The Ministry of Truth. “The past is just a story we tell ourselves,” says Samantha in the recent film Her. Of the many things this movie offers to explore and think about, this one struck me the most. The idea that the past can be rewritten is hardly new.
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