Reflection: A Personal Analysis Of 50 First Dates

50 First Dates Reflection In the movie 50 First Dates, the main characters are a woman named Lucy who has anterograde amnesia and a man named Henry who meets her one day – and then she meets him “for the first time” for the next several days. Lucy’s amnesia was caused by a traumatic head injury that resulted from a car accident. She has vivid memory of each day leading up to the accident, and lives each day the same way she planned for the day of the accident roughly a year earlier. To avoid daily pain and struggle, all of her loved ones enable her to relive this day by setting everything up as if it were that day. This is until Henry comes into her life and convinces them to try telling her the truth about her memory each day. This lines

In her case, she does not have memory problems until she wakes up in the morning – the reason she’s reliving the same day rather than the same few minutes, hour, etc. In real cases of anterograde amnesia, the person often struggles to learn new tasks or retain information throughout the entire day. Sleep is actually theorized to consolidate memories, which is why this aspect of her condition does not make much sense. Branching from that, however, Lucy later starts dreaming about Henry after they’ve stopped seeing each other. While this may not be inaccurate, since it is incredibly hard to test whether people with anterograde amnesia can dream about people they met after they developed it, it is inconsistent with the set condition that her memory of the day completely degrades overnight during

This is a man who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, and consequentially lost the ability to store any memories whatsoever. While his is a more accurate representation of anterograde amnesia than Lucy’s, the movie seems to imply that Tom also has retrograde amnesia, meaning he does not remember anything before the accident, either. It does not reveal the full extent to which he forgot parts of his life, but they wrote his demeanor as if he is a brand-new person with almost no life experiences every 10 seconds. He does not seem to remember anything about himself besides the name Tom. This case is very similar to an example patient discussed in class, Clive. Every 7 seconds, Clive proclaimed that he was alive for the first time; that he had never experienced anything before that moment. Even though he was completely sure of this, he still had feelings of overwhelming joy when he saw his wife’s face. If he truly could not remember anything about his life, he would not have such intense feelings for her, or possibly even recognize who she is. While both of these cases are severe, they are fairly accurate, with length of memory lasting roughly the same amount of time most short-term memory lasts before