Marigold petals do the arguing. In Coco, the dead return not because a vault has preserved them intact, but because a name, repeated at a table and carried through grief, prompts episodic memory to assemble a person anew. That is the film's quietest audacity. It makes recollection social labor.Nostalgia is less honest. Cognitive science treats recall as an act of reconstruction: when retrieval rea...More