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most likely inspired a particular movie that I saw on video. Many years
later, I learned that it is actually a TV movie adapted from Robert
Ludlum's bestseller: "The Bourne Identity". As a dreamer youngster growing
up with the vivid images from the simplified versions of Western
literature and tales from Arabian Nights as well, I was fancying to find
myself in one day, like Alice, in the midst of an astonishing story that I
am the protagonist. "The Bourne Identity" provided me an outlet to break
the chain of the dull reality: only amnesia could offer a GENIUNE ground
for self-exploration and discovery of the hero within me. 

In 2002, I rushed to the movie theatre to regenerate my fantasies with the
Hollywood version of the story featuring Matt Damon. But my excitement
ended up with frustration by the reason of its hastiness to transform a
fascinating mystery into a loutish thriller. In its TV series version, the
audience was not introduced with more information about the real identity
of Bourne than the clues gained by Bourne among the plot. Is he really
Carlos the Jackal? But Hollywood version immediately adopts third person
narrative and we are admitted to CIA headquarters.

There is fallacy coined by the immanent critique by Hollywood on the
excessive deeds of US imperialism conducted by the perverted individuals
from officially armed organizations. This so-called critique extracts the
lame limb from the well-functioning organism: The well intentioned
organization of CIA that provides useful information to ensure free-market
democracy and its philanthropist assassination program to liberate third
world from despotism is now went off the rails and became dangerous, thus
there comes a renegade without a memory (completely ignorant to how the
game is played) and somehow equipped with a native morality that prevent
him taking other's money. But in the real life, like in stud poker, most
of the cards dealt face-up. For instance, CIA does not functions
independent from the social organism, from the regulations of
international market, approval of the Congress, etc. Assassination and
torture could become instruments of the official foreign policy, like once
torture was a spectacle in Roman Empire. But in the psyche of our idiotic
protagonist, the spy on the run, negative quantity of information turns
into a plus quantity of moralism like Marx once identified once in the
ideas of Heinzen. 

full: http://weblogmca.blogspot.com/2008/01/desire-for-amnesia.html


Mehmet Çagatay
http://weblogmca.blogspot.com/


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