"There are movies that you love in part because of the memories you hold of them, from childhood favorites that are practically imprinted in your brain to blockbusters improved by a particularly amazing screening. Less talked about is the opposite: films you hate because they're attached in some way to a moment or experience you want to forget. Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" is a horrible movie, yes,"
"I was born in 1999, a year before "Cast Away" hit theaters on December 22, 2000. In a "Sliding Doors" moment I think about quite often, my parents had two names they were still debating upon my birth: the very conventional George and the somewhat less-so Wilson. Family legend (or perhaps Mom and Dad trying to shift some blame) has it that it was one of the neonatal nurses who convinced them to go with Wilson."
Memories shape emotional responses to films, producing both fond attachment and intense aversion. The narrator describes hating some movies because they are tied to unpleasant experiences rather than cinematic quality. A feverish, vomiting first viewing of Alice in Wonderland intensified long-term revulsion for that film. Cast Away exerts an even stronger effect because the narrator nearly received the name Wilson at birth; a neonatal nurse reportedly swayed the parents toward that choice. The name Wilson originated as a family surname, common as a last name but relatively rare as a first name.
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