The movie I had chosen was 50 First Dates which was made in 2004. I had chosen this movie because it was a great example of someone suffering from a psychological disorder. One of the main characters whose name is Lucy deal with Short-term memory lost. Short-term memory is defined in the textbook on page 152, that it is the type or stage of memory that can hold information for up to a minute or so after the trace of the stimulus decays; also called working memory.
In the movie, Lucy does the same things every day. A year ago, on a Sunday it was October 13th, Lucy dad’s birthday, when Lucy and her dad was traveling up North to pick a pineapple and a cow was in the middle of the road and the father tried to dodge it and hit a tree and Lucy had a serious head injury from the accident and that is what caused her to have Short-term memory lost. The mental illness was discussed out through the movie in many ways because Lucy was not aware that she even has Short-term memory lost. Lucy cannot retain any new information.
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When the officer told her that it was not October 13th she begin to get frustrated and ran to the newspaper stand and saw that it was a whole year later and it was the month of May. Lucy drove home upset and Lucy dad and brother showed her the newspaper article of the accident, pictures of her in the hospital, and told her that she spent three months in the hospital. Lucy was in disbelief so she wanted confirmation from her doctor. That day her doctor introduced her to 10 second Tom, 10 second Tom had a similar head injury and he can only remember things for 10 seconds. According to the text on page 153, in short term memory the image tends to fade significantly after 10 to 12 seconds if it is not repeated or
The movie I choose for my assignment is "The Submarine Kid", it was produced in 2015 and the main character is played by Finn Wittrock. This movie depicts the homecoming of a Marine named Spencer who is hit with the hard reality of coming home, but his mind is still replaying the sights and sounds of military life in Afghanistan. He has a bad case of PSTD throughout the movie, which plays into his social life and his daily behavior. At the beginning of the movie it seems that Spencer has met a new girl (Alice), but over the course of the movie you realize that the girl and the life they have together is all made up in his mind. It follows along the lines of a comic book called "The Submarine Kid", the girl that Spencer falls in love with,
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I chose the film “50 First Dates” for my film analysis. Starring Drew Barrymore as Lucy and Adam Sandler as Henry, this film is about a young art teacher (Barrymore) who was involved in a car accident that causes her to have short-term memory loss. Lucy wake up everyday believing that it is October 13th, 2002, her father's birthday, and the day that they got into the accident. Sandler’s character is a single man who falls in love with Barrymore and attempts to recall her memory and have her fall in love with her each day. The movie concludes with Sandler and Barrymore’s character getting married, despite her short-term memory loss.
Prior to diagnosis the individual may show signs of forgetfulness due to an incline in memory functions. They may even show signs of a decline in reasoning and communication
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