Psychological Analysis Of 50 First Dates By Drew Barrymore

50 First Dates features Drew Barrymore as Lucy, who gets into a horrible car accident. She suffers a severe head injury, and therefore loses her short term memory. Although she still has all of her memories up until the night before her accident, she cannot retain any new memory she creates as she suffers from anterograde amnesia. Thus, every day she wakes up thinking its October 13 of the previous year. This movie also portrays how most family copes with this accident. To prevent her from reliving the tragic accident, her father and her brother reenact the October 13 event, which happens to be her father’s birthday, by doing following a routine which includes putting the October 13 newspaper edition, repainting the garage all white so that Lucy can paint the garage the way she wants, re watching the Vikings game and the 1999 film "The Sixth Sense", and refilling Lucy’s shampoo bottle. One of

The first time I watched this movie was when I was 10 and didn’t think or observed anything about psychology until today, when I saw this movie for about the hundredth time, it was the first time I saw this movie where I identified some psychology topics. I was surprised by how much of psychology was involved in this movie such as coping, where Lucy’s family were doing everything they can to reduce the stress from Lucy by reliving October 13th to prevent her from reliving her accident, addiction, as Doug was using steroids for the need to look fit and strong, hippocampus as how its an important part of the brain where its stores memory and the damage of it can have negative outcomes, and most notably retrograde and anterograde amnesia. Despite the mediocre acting from the casts and the errors they made about psychology in this movie, the movie was pretty good and how they displayed many topics on psychology. I would recommend anyone who took psychology to watch 50 First Dates as it offers many topics of