Tell Me Why Critique
Channel: Filip Magnus
Date: 2020-11-16

Memory, Family, Grief
Dontnod Entertainment's latest episodic adventure, Tell Me Why, opens up a whole can of memory worms! This flawed but powerful narrative offers a platform for the discussion of several relevant themes: those of memory's subjective imperfections and of the bonds that bind family together; those of the nature of grief and the power of guilt...and the ever-present theme of Dontnod's tendency to pack in artificial conflict where there's plenty of genuine conflict going all around! 

Watermarks: 
Chapter 01 (Homecoming)  - 00:10

Chapter 02 (Family Secrets)  - 15:56

Chapter 03 (Inheritance) : 36:55

Sources used in the video:

Jonathan Franzen, How to be Alone, "My Father's Brain." 2004, Published by  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Clair Wills, "Learning to Grieve," NYRB November 19, 2020 / Volume LXVII, Number 18

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