"True or false? My read is that he was actually telling the truth when he said he didn't remember the icicles, and that's what he was actually missing--having memories, not the specific things he'd be able to remember if he still could."
False. He couldn't give the agent any leverage over him. He was by himself, alone in an unsafe location, with the FBI/police hunting him.
"I don't remember" might have meant: right now I am not thinking of it, so no, I do not remember.
Not that he can't, but that he won't and therefore will not think of the memory, won't call it back, not there, not then, not with him.
Because he misses Russia. We all want the life we don't have - and he wants the simple life. He wants his family to be real, he wants his wife to be his wife, his children to be his children, for the biggest problem to be that he has to shovel out the walk.
He wouldn't look or respond to Baklanov for the same reason: the words impact him, but he can't let them do that.
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Re: Post-second-viewing: Jae
Date: 2014-03-27 04:33 pm (UTC)False. He couldn't give the agent any leverage over him. He was by himself, alone in an unsafe location, with the FBI/police hunting him.
"I don't remember" might have meant: right now I am not thinking of it, so no, I do not remember.
Not that he can't, but that he won't and therefore will not think of the memory, won't call it back, not there, not then, not with him.
Because he misses Russia. We all want the life we don't have - and he wants the simple life. He wants his family to be real, he wants his wife to be his wife, his children to be his children, for the biggest problem to be that he has to shovel out the walk.
He wouldn't look or respond to Baklanov for the same reason: the words impact him, but he can't let them do that.
What is EST? Why's it bad?