Short-Term Memory Loss in Finding Nemo's Dori

We all know the popular family movie “Finding Nemo” a kid’s movie that tells a journey of Marlin, a father clown fish, who crosses the vast ocean to find his son Nemo. During Marlin’s journey he comes across many new and scary things, but like any good children’s movie Marlin does eventually find his son Nemo and they go back home and live happily ever after. This all sounds good right? Wrong! Looking at this movie from a psychologist point of view, or in my case a psychology students’ point of view you slowly begin to realize from the moment the movie starts each and every one of the characters in this lovely kids movie is kind of messed up in their own special way.

The motion picture we are applying or using is Pixar's "Finding Nemo". Our hero would be Marlin, the timid clownfish who lives safe and secluded in the colorful and warm tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef. After the devastating, life changing event when starting a family, specifically when a hostile fish devoured his wife and all his unborn kids, Marlin had been a cowardly, cautious individual who lacks socialism and simply "can't tell a joke". He limits, rescues, protects and controls Nemo, and expectations are low for Nemo's ability, due to his disability. He is somber, worried and agitated about every detail in Nemo's life. In fact, Marlin's life completely revolves around Nemo's life. Also, Marlin can't acknowledge or admit that

In the story Finding Nemo by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, Marlin the overprotective clownfish is cautious and fearful wherever he goes.

Outline and evaluate research in to the duration, capacity and encoding information in short term memory.

What is the typical idea of a hero? Sure, there may be Marvel Heroes, but do they fit the archetype of a The Hero’s Journey? In the movie Finding Nemo directed by Andrew Stanton, a small fearful clownfish goes on a life changing adventure after his son had been taken by a scuba diver. Marlin’s journey has its ups and downs but it fits the pattern of the hero’s journey archetype almost perfectly. Joseph Campbell said, “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a religion of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won, the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow men” (Campbell). Marlin does exactly that. He goes from the ordinary world into the sacred world in search for his treasure, his son, Nemo.

This movie accurately shows us that Dory has Anterograde Amnesia. One specific scene where this disorder is displayed is in the beginning when Dory's parents are telling her what to say when she meets someone ( I suffer from short term memory loss). After this the parents act as if they are random people and start playing hide and seek. When the parents tell her to count to 10, she counts up to 3 and forgets what they are doing. She then wanders off to a group of fish and their parents immediately chase after her. This scene accurately displays Anterograde Amnesia since it shows us that Dory is unable to remember what is going on and then wanders off elsewhere. Another scene where the disorder is displayed is when Dory can't remember where her parents are as a result of accidentally losing them and then Dory asks a couple of fishes that she needs help finding them, but forgets what she said and repeats the same thing again. This shows that Dory's short term memory loss or Anterograde Amnesia causes her to forget where her parents are and even makes herself look awkward when repeating a question that she already asked. A third example of Dory displaying that she has Anterograde Amnesia is when she is sleeping and then gets up to ask one of her friends a question but is said to go back to bed. When she goes back to bed she decides to go ask a question not knowing she already said it

In This Essay, I will be doing a semiotics analysis on a film Finding Nemo which is about a clown fish trying to find his son lost in the ocean. The main argument that I am going to discuss is Marlin meeting Dory and travel around the sea made him overcome his fear and a better parent to Nemo. I will also be presenting the Semiotic of scenes and the meaning behind them.

The film I’ve chosen to analyze is the film Finding Nemo, an animated comedy-drama adventure film, directed by Andrew Shanton and Lee Unkrich. Major actors include; Alexander Gould as Nemo, Ellen DeGeneres as Dory and Albert Brooks as Marlin. The film was officially released in May 30th, 2003. This blockbuster film was nominated Best Animated Feature, also winning more than forty different awards. Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist’s office fish tank. It is now up to the worrisome father, Marlin and his new friend Dory, to set off across the ocean to find Nemo. As his epic journey to find his son continues, Marlin and Dory are faced with challenging situations, which put their fears to the test; allowing them to not only create a new great friendship, but also learn valuable lessons. One of the highlighted lessons in

Although psychology class is most likely not the first thing to come to mind when watching a Disney movie, many psychological concepts can be drawn from them. In Andrew Stanton’s 2003 animated film, Finding Nemo, various psychological concepts are exemplified. Finding Nemo tells the story of an overly cautious clownfish named Marlin who losses his son, Nemo, to a pair of divers. He meets a fish named Dory who together seek to find Marlin’s son. Throughout their journey they encounter a storm of jelly fish, surfing sea-turtles, sharks participating in a “Fish are Friends, Not Food (Graham, 2003)” support group, and numerous other conflicts. Hidden between the lines of their comic misfortunes, Marlin suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, many characters fall to acts of conformity, and altruism is a theme that defines the movie.

Anterograde amnesia is the loss of the ability to create new memories, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past (Luke Mastin, 2010). Some symptoms include the impaired ability to learn new information following the onset of amnesia. Recent memories are most likely to be lost, while more remote or deeply ingrained memories may be spared. Someone may recall experiences from childhood or know the names of past presidents, but not be remember what month it is or what was for breakfast (Mayo Clinic, 2014). Throughout the movie, it is evident that Dory shows symptoms of anterograde amnesia. She often has difficulty remembering conversations within minutes of having them, which can explain her bizarre behavior to those around her. In Finding Nemo, Dory mispronounces Nemo’s name several times. Even at the end of the movie, she calls Nemo “Elmo” by mistake. Another example of Dory’s amnesia is at the start of Finding Nemo. Dory bumps into Marlin, who is frantically pursuing a boat that has abducted his son. After a short exchange, Dory helps show Marlin the way it went. After swimming for only a few minutes, Dory completely forgets who Marlin is and why he is following her. Throughout the movie, it is apparent that Dory suffers from Anterograde amnesia. She has trouble

In the adventurous children's film, “Finding Nemo,” directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, the character Dory swims through her life happy and carefree. Even without normal memory and in spite of a tragic event, she still remains positive with child-like impulses. First off, Dory has to overcome the fact that she suffers with short term memory loss, which explains her spontaneous actions. When Dory continuously forgets who Marlin, Nemo’s desperate father is, he asks her if it’s a joke. She replies by saying, “No, it's not.

As an offspring of the 1990s, I long back ago about how often I've seen "Finding Nemo" – and given Pixar's new affinity for spin-offs, an arrival to that richly introduced submerged world was maybe unavoidable. Set quite a while after "Nemo," "Finding Dory" focuses on the cherished blue tang with memory issues, who wanders forward on a transoceanic adventure looking for her departed guardians. Appropriately, "Finding Dory" has to a lesser degree a street motion picture vibe than the first. There's Hank, a delightfully curmudgeonly octopus set on getting exchanged to an aquarium in Cleveland; Destiny, an astigmatic (and marginally ditzy) whale shark; Bailey, a self-tormentor beluga whale, whose endeavors at echolocation are a portion of the film's most clever

To start off our story, we need to go from the beginning. Marlin and his wife are soon to be parents, with their many fish babies. Before they are born, a shark comes through and eats the wife and all of the babies but one. That last little fish hatches and is Marlin’s only kid, which is named Nemo. One day at school, Nemo was feeling rebellious and swam out into the open water towards a boat. Nemo is taken by the fisherman, which of course freaks out

On his pursuit he meets a blue fish named Dori, who has a memory problem. She undoubtedly is annoying to Marlin and he gets very impatient with her when she continues to repeat herself. Against his better judgment he agrees to let her help him find his lost son. For the next few days, as the movie goes, they have several encounters with other marine wildlife that according to Marlin are dangerous. First they encounter three sharks which are known to be solely meat eaters but they join the sharks and spend some time with them that show them that not all sharks are that way but some feel that fish should be thought of as "friends, not food" as the sharks like to say. With this knowledge he begins to trust more of the other sea creatures that he did before.

The movie then transitions to years later on Nemo’s first day of school. While ecstatic to meet his classmates, teacher, and the independence of going to school, Marlin ceases to let Nemo go smoothly due to his fear of losing his only son and the worry of his “lucky” fin (an injury acquired from the barracuda attack). After such trauma, Marlin is known to be “scared” of the ocean, filled with anxiety,