12/2/2023 0 Comments Forgotten fields 2015 lineupNone of this is to say that Forgotten Fields is without its rough edges. If the player encounters these places with a sense of recognition, it is because Forgotten Fields presents them through the eyes of someone who has done the work of looking-and conveying-what they have seen with detail and intimacy. Forgotten Fields shines less in helping Sid’s imaginary girl find her way into a story, and more in giving the player space to exist with Sid as he drives past the palm trees that separate the highway from the ocean and walks in and out of the homes of his friends and family. Part of the wonder of art is that it is possible, sometimes, to create something that isn’t entirely what one might have intended for it to be, and to have done it well, regardless. Forgotten Fields isn’t really about writer’s block, or nostalgia, or the tension between creating for art and creating for money. It cannot be too much of a spoiler to observe that both Sid and the girl he imagines learn over the course of Forgotten Fields that leaving home and returning home-and leaving home in precisely the hope of returning again-are all part of a larger gesture. In between moments of everyday life, Sid imagines a girl who has lost her magical abilities, and must leave her home to find them again. As Sid travels home, making his way down the coast to these familiar places, he meets old friends, frets that he will never write again, and starts to find the seeds of a new idea.
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