Most amnesia patients don’t have this luxury, or family members who can stop their own lives to devote all of their time exclusively to the patient. And I don't know why everybody says Adam Sandler sucks, but I love him.

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I always tell people to make sure that they have my attention before they tell me things but it is hard for them to know since I will respond to everything they say as if I actually am listening then later have no memory of the conversation. So yes, I don't like this movie, but it's for more personal reasons that academic ones.

Journal Article Summary: The movie 50 First Dates is a romantic comedy film directed by Peter Segal. Sorry, but copying text is forbidden on this website. By doing this she is almost able to live a normal life just like everybody else. Henry is a ladies man on the island who has been breaking the hearts of female tourists for years. Doctor: Obviously your sense of humour is still intact. Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment until he meets the beautiful Lucy.

In the future I plan to write a post on Memento, which is totally awesome in almost every possible way. When somebody possesses this and they don’t know they have it, they can’t live a real life. Lot of humor, but significant serious drama, 50 First Dates Message Board (click here). I kind of have a question for you. Because the film is a comedy, we see the “lighter side” of anterograde amnesia. The movie is sort of an experiment for Sandler. Lucy is in a car accident and suffers from memory loss, which is a sadness that affects her … Maybe it is due to your dislike of the movie or the way the true illness was turned into a humorous plot. Henry meets Lucy at a local cafe and takes her out on a date.

Dan Akroyd's character serves to explain not only to Sandler but also her brother and father that what they are all doing is not best for Lucy, and that she belongs at the hospital, saying, "everybody wants to believe Lucy is going to get better, but it is not going to happen". I can relate in terms of tennis, as I couldn't continue watching the movie "Wimbledon" even if it would have been a quality flick. It is interesting that the movie is actually very accurate. It was very helpful for me, unlike Gordon, when I saw this movie like 10 years ago I searched if this anterograde amnesia is real but as you said it, It wasn't a real name so I couldn't find anything. So back to the movie – could Barrymore’s character somehow, unconsciously, remember Sandler’s character and her feelings for him? I just want to know why 'it's not okay' to do that.

Henry Roth is a veterinarian living in Hawaii who enjoys the company of vacationing women. My personal opinion of the movie is more about how I found the dialogue pretty cheesy and that I just don't like Adam Sandler (I find him annoying).

I just read your post and I wanted to say thank you. You are right that I acknowledge that much of the "psychology" of this movie is actually pretty accurate!

Both Henry and Lucy enjoy the company of each other and feel the start of a serious relationship occurring. Haven't seen 50 First Dates, but its treatment of amnesia sounds like a documentary study compared to The Majestic. You'd think it would be hard to construct an arc for a story that starts fresh every day, but George Wing's screenplay ingeniously uses videotape to solve that problem -- so that Lucy gets a briefing every morning on what she has missed, and makes daily notes in a journal about her strange romance with Henry. That would show that you aren't the only one that feels that the brother and father can not spend their lives doing what they are doing, but it is going to be hard for her family members to let her go. Henry meets Lucy at a local cafe and takes her out on a date. Henry falls in love with Lucy, but there is one problem when she awakens in the morning, she can't remember him or anything that happened that day. Retrieved from https://graduateway.com/50-first-dates-psychology-analysis/, This is just a sample. Chill out, if people wanted to learn about amnesia they probably wouldn't be going to a goofy Adam Sandler movie. He never showed surprise when he looked in the mirror and saw that he had become an old man. Click on a plot link to find similar books! In this film, the protagonist also has anterograde amnesia, and he resorts to tattooing his body to remember essential things. I do like "The Wedding Singer," so we agree on that! And of course, the movie could have have been a very successful romantic comedy without some unrealistic aspects (at least, not when the topic was anterograde amnesia). Second, Barrymore’s character supposedly has a form of amnesia called “Goldfield’s Syndrome.” This is totally made up by, apparently, the film’s writers and/or director. I just finished watching 50 First Dates and while watching decided to look up "Goldfield's Syndrome" to see if there was any truth to it. Another reality portrayed in the film is that most people who have severe amnesia are forced to live in a hospital setting. A movie about a girl with amnesia who lives in a hospital would not be very interesting and would severely limit the plot development.

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I agree with both of you, I believe. I was looking up the condition from the movie while curling up with my wife on the couch, as we wanted to see if it was genuine. People age, people get hair cuts, people buy new clothes, things around the house change, the weather changes, etc. So.... Hi, I'm Amir from Iran.

The movie is about Henry Roth who is a wildlife veterinarian in Hawaii, meeting Lucy Whitmore a woman who has a short-term memory loss from an auto accident a year earlier. Thanks for the response. Hi Adam - I'm glad you enjoy the movie. Synopsis

That means Henry has helped her somewhat retain some of her short term memories. This is a kinder and gentler Adam Sandler. Henry meets Lucy at a local cafe and takes her out on a date. It is different from retrograde amnesia, where memories prior to the event are forgotten. However, he knew where it was kept. Henry Roth lives in a Hawaiian paradise with the company of endless women with no strings attached. And if someone asks me to do something the next day I have to be sure to write it down or I will not remember that they asked me to do something. ...I mean, besides Sandler’s juvenile humor and Rob Schneider’s typically racist character. But when he arrives and makes a reference to their previous conversation, she thinks he's some kind of freak and calls for help. The thing that bothers me about your review is that you say the movie is horrible, but it seems to do more things right (however unfeasible the application may seem) than wrong. And he never showed surprise that she had aged when she visited. your own paper. (not surprised to learn there isn't). Douglas Young (the-movie-guy). How Racism May Influence Judgments of Honesty, 6 Ways to Increase Your Patience with Distance Learning. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy, The input space is limited by 250 symbols. Aside from my post on Twilight, readers of this blog seem to prefer when I write about older movies, like A Clockwork Orange or Remember the Titans. Good luck with your writing. So, what about this movie is valid, and what is Hollywood hogwash? Later on, Henry realizes that if he wants to win her affections, he's going to have to start over again. It follows the story of Henry, a womanizing marine veterinarian who falls for an art teacher named Lucy. So today I’m going to analyze a movie that’s a bit older, and my first “romantic comedy” film – 50 First Dates, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. They work well together, as they showed in "The Wedding Singer"; they have the same tone of smiling, coy sincerity. This is until he meets Lucy Whitmore.

There’s no such thing as Goldfield’s Syndrome. Movie Summary. Goldfield’s syndrome is a fictive name for a specific form of Anterograde amnesia used in the romantic comedy.