if someone had head trauma and neatly lost the last 6 years only from their memory...well that alone would never happen. cause memories arent compartmentalized chronologically
Please tell that to the guy I know in his late fifties who had his brain banged up so bad that he can't use one arm and can barely walk and has no recollection of graduating from high school nor any recollection of going to college, which is when the injury took place. He has no recollection of any of his friends from college, just from high school, from some point well before he graduated. He happens to believe to this day that the reason he has no recollection of going to college is that he was never allowed to graduate, (because he can't remember that, either).
Although what you say appears to be true, that memory engrams are not arranged chronologically, they are arranged in many other ways, many of which are still nowhere near as well understood.
The reason that this flick can get away with appearing to have such a neat chronologically arranged amnesia, is that it doesn't have anything to appear to do as much with the timing of anything, as with the fact that it was all her memories of having begun to doubt her role in life, her role in her family, her own self worth, her own happiness, etc. Which is by no means an impossibility. And because it had been so shortly after beginning to deal with those particular kinds of doubts, that she wound up deciding to completely leave everybody she knew behind, in order to attempt to recreate her own life. Making it even that much less improbable.
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martytamu27
12 years ago
That wa my point exactly. She suffered memory loss that went back to the exact moment she changed her life. So that's why I said it had to have a psychological component involved as well. Most likely the elderly gent above who lost his had something similar.
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GaelinW
12 years ago
She suffered memory loss that went back to the exact moment she changed her life.
Uh, no. She thought she was still engaged to Jeremy, in law school and having a perfect relationship with her family. So her memory went back to before she changed her life. Not the "exact moment" of doing so..
We know the break with her family was the result of her father's infidelity, but we don't know if that it is what prompted her breakup with Jeremy, decision to leave law school and/or move into the city. Nor do we know if they all happened at the exact same time. It was never depicted but she could have remained engaged to Jeremy for months or years after breaking with her family. The same with staying in law school.
If you can't walk and talk/text at the same time, do the rest of us a favor and get out of the way.
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TitanicFanForever101
11 years ago
I think she needed to see a psychiatrist. I mean even the doctor said it might be psychological, that she doesn't want to remember. Her brain went through a trauma and maybe it took her back to a time where she felt safe and happy with her parents before she found out about her father’s affair. Obviously what her father did upset her greatly, so much so that she changed hr life dramatically. The unconscious mind is extremely powerful and her memory loss could have been something psychologically. I am taking Psych 101 now too. The brain is still mysterious and doctors still don't know why amnesia happens. My friend had memory loss and saw a psychiatrist, after a few months she got most of her memory back. After she found out her brain was physically fine, her doctor told her to see a psychiatrist because it could be psychological.
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