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In the film 'The Passenger' why did Jack Nicholson's wife lie at the end, on seeing him dead, saying she has never seen him before?
Or did I get it all wrong?
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But whatever annoyances the film brings on, there is one progressive statement that it brings forth: to deny the past is to negate the future, the potential. Nicholson’s attempt to evade the past is something he talks about before he does it—he taped a conversation with Robertson before Robertson died. When we listen to the tape, we hear Nicholson wonder out loud why one can't just forget the past, throw it all away. The film is almost an answer to that. Revolution is based in history, not in the denial of it. The failure to know and understand history, the failure to deal with and confront it, leads to impotent escapism and in Nicholson’s case, to death. Nicholson wants to forget his own past; the best he can do is stumble. That his wife fails to recognize him (however trite it may seem) and that the assassins “recognize” him as Robertson, point to Nicholson’s success in denying his past.
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