When I first watched The Souvenir, I thought I was watching a story. Very quickly, it shifted from a viewing experience into a space of mirroring and recognition. This text begins as a film analysis and gradually becomes a personal reckoning: an essay that tries to hold a formal reading of cinema and a subjective … Okumaya devam et SOUVENIR I & II – The Not-So-Quiet Aftermath: Trauma Bonds, False Love, and Cinema as Witness