Looking Back: Reflecting On The Past To Understand The Present So often we get stuck in the past, rehashing what we should have done, and what we no longer have. But researchers say our obsession ...

In other words, aspects of the past that we enjoy thinking about tend to stick with us over time, while elements we don’t think about fade away. Researchers call this retrieval-induced forgetting.

“Past Lives” is a wistful what-if story about two people, the children they were and the adults they become. The movie follows them through the years and across assorted reunions, separations ...