Movie Amnesia
Discover Magazine recently reported on the portrayal of amnesia in movies. This is frequently brought on by a knock on the head and memory is later recovered by another knock on the head. A recent study of amnesia in movie characters by Sallie Baxendale, a neuropsychologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, looked at 60 movies. She reported that only three of them had accurate portrayals of amnesia, two of which I have seen and enjoyed, the other I have never heard of. I would like for all visitors and members of the CC to reflect for a moment and list a couple of movies they think are the most accurate. I will update with the answer after I get a few guesses.
UPDATE!! Okay, I guess I will give the answer before even you, Joe, lose interest, if you haven't already. The three movies deemed to have accurately portrayed amnesia by Sallie Baxendale were: Finding Nemo (Dory), Memento and Se Quien Eres.
8 Comments:
I didn't get it, are we supposed to guess something? Movies about amnesia?
Looked at both links and didn't see any help. Are my obtuse posts rubbing off on you?
Yes Joe, your posts are obtuse, no they have not rubbed off on me. I will fix the post to correct for your lack of acuity
I guess you liked Memento and Total Recall, and maybe The Bourne Identity.
You got one right. I bet you didn't watch the other one that I saw.
Mulholland Drive? Nurse Betty?
Surely The Matrix or Eternal Sunshine... are too easy.
I'm holding out for at least one more person to take a guess, before I divulge, but if you get the other one I will tell you.
Groundhog Day or 50 First Dates
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