“This thing — I’ll call it trauma — enters our speech as if by stealth, through the back door, in the night. Then it sounds as though we are speaking in code to one another and to ourselves, and that code is both the mark of trauma and is, itself, traumatizing.”

Instead, this abuse and the ghosts become intermixed, to the point where Miss Giddens can see manifested trauma everywhere she goes, and her need to declare it destroys the children. (Brenna Goodwin-McCabe on What These Horrors Want: Infectious Thought in The Innocents)

Y tu mamá también, Alfonso Cuarón Gael García Bernal Maribel Verdú Diego Luna

“All memory is individual, unreproducible—it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened […].”

“GIRL is born as GIRL. her brother is born as BULL. every day, the BROTHER wishes himself HUMAN and the girl wishes herself BEAST. not a COW but a BULL. something powerful, with feet heavy enough to trample GODS.”