As Tony recounts it, the letter gave his blessing to the new relationship between Adrian and ex-girlfriend, Veronica. Tony’s misapprehension centres around a false memory he has concerning the letter he sent to Adrian. But the bequest causes him to reconnect with Veronica, and as he speaks to her, he starts to reconsider his vision of their past. Tony never gets to read the diary because Veronica refuses to give it up.
The diary has been left to him by the mother of Tony’s first college girlfriend, Veronica (Charlotte Rampling). One morning he receives a letter explaining that he has been left the diary of his closest friend from school, Adrian, who committed suicide when they were at university. Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) is a grumpy retiree who owns a camera repair shop in modern day London.
I research false memories, and so I was curious to see how the film matched up to my own understanding of how our views of our pasts do not always reflect what actually happened. It explores the intriguing premise that our own views of our lives may be incomplete and even inaccurate. The recently released film The Sense of an Ending, adapted from Julian Barnes’s Booker-winning novel, takes the second perspective. How much do you trust your memories? Do you consider the events and perspectives you remember as gospel truth, or as more malleable, fickle things that bend and warp with time and shifting context?
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