The Italian Luca Guadagnino, director of Call me by your name, has described Witch hunt as one thriller Moral. An exercise in speculative fiction built on a disturbing enigma: what happened between a Yale University philosophy professor (Andrew Garfield, temperamental) and a well-bred African-American student (Ayo Edebiri, chameleonic) who is the partner of a trans person? Was it a consensual encounter or sexual assault? And what does a professor (Julia Roberts, all-rounder) who is the main confidant of the alleged aggressor and the mentor of the complainant have to do with all this? From this extreme situation—which invokes #MeToo, cancel culture, systemic racism, and the struggle of the LGBTI community— Witch hunt X-rays an academic universe divided between professors willing to do anything for a tenured position and students on the warpath against a retrograde model.

I find it extremely foolish to renounce an artist's work because of the life that artist has led, and miss out on it, or, in the worst case, encourage others to miss out. Knowing the artist helps us understand the work, but, at the moment of creation, the artist—just like us when we consume his work—is situated in another realm. The world of creation is, by the way, a place of stricter moral rigor than life itself. Vargas Llosa, for example, so painfully anti-Catalan, wrote some of the best essays you will find on the subject.Strap.

Now that there is so much talk about memory – historical memory, re-memorization of old aggressions, memory training, diseases linked to memory loss... – I propose that we distinguish between have memory and remember. Have memory It would be the mental quality that allows us to remember facts that are fairly close to what happened in the past. We say, "Remember that New Year's Eve dinner where we had cheese fondue?" And we respond, "Now that you mention it, yes. Ten or fifteen years ago. What a memory you have!" And having a bad memory would be forgetting facts and names.