50 First Dates

Synopsis:

Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) a playboy veterinarian met Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore) an art teacher one morning at a café. Both Henry and Lucy enjoyed the company of each other, the next day they have met again but to Henry’s surprise Lucy couldn’t remember a thing. Later did Henry know that Lucy suffers from short term memory loss since the day Lucy and her father had an accident but Henry didn’t see this as a threat since he has already fell for Lucy, since then Henry would always do everything to make Lucy fall in love with him all over again each and every day.

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In the movie 50 first dates Lucy suffered from anterograde amnesia according to my research it is when a person loses the capacity to form new memories (called Goldfield Syndrome in the movie) from an accident. This cause to damage her temporal lobe especially her hippocampal region and to forget a part of her memory of anything between the day of the accident and the present. Because she is incapable of converting short-term memories (can be called "working memory" which refers to our ability to hold on to information we are currently thinking about etc.) into long-term memories (in which data can be stored for long period of time). Lucy’s memories gained or experience prior to the accident is intact including people’s names, past events, where she lives, etc.
In reality people who suffer from anterograde amnesia have trouble forming short-term memories after 10 minutes or so, making it impossible for Lucy to remember things from earlier in the day.
In the movie, she is able to remember everything from the day up until she goes to sleep. Once she wakes up, she forgets everything that happened the previous day everything she learned experienced after is new. Despite the fact of Lucy’s condition Henry believed that deep down Lucy can still remember her even though the doctor in the movie told them that it is impossible for her condition to change but still miracles do happened because Lucy said that she had dreams of Henry and images of them were stored. I know that cases like there are possible to happen.
In the end, I really enjoyed the movie it made me laugh and cry because of Lucy and Henry’s situation but like what I’ve said miracles do happened and 50 first dates showed it to us.