#ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA AND RETROGRADE AMNESIA MOVIE#
“The movie overall does a great job of portraying the severity of Leonard’s anterograde amnesia and clarifying the difference between what this is and the more typical movie depiction,” Schachter said. (Schachter also traced the filmmaker’s insight to a Georgetown University psychology class taken by Nolan’s brother Jonathan, who used the idea for a short story.) Schachter also praised Nolan’s understanding of anterograde amnesia, in which a person is unable to form new memories, although he noted that most cases of anterograde amnesia also entail some retrograde amnesia, or loss of memories from before the injury. “Although this account may seem silly, it is surprisingly pervasive,” said Daffner. Summarizing the film’s complex plot, Daffner praised it for not repeating the erroneous Hollywood trope that amnesia “is often caused by a blow to the head, which causes the loss of memory and personality and identity.” In this mistaken concept, the sufferer is still able to form new memories, and the problem is often cured by another blow to the head. Images of this brutal act are Leonard’s last enduring memory. Leonard, played by Guy Pearce, attempts to compensate for his inability to remember by leaving himself clues - notes, Polaroid pictures, and tattoos all over his body - that apparently document what he has learned about the rape and murder of his wife. Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, opened the event, sponsored by the Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, with a discussion of the plausibility of the acclaimed film’s premise.
David and Virginia Wimberly Professor of Neurology, panelists Daniel L.
That is the storyline of filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s 2000 psychological thriller “Memento,” which served as the focus for a lively online panel discussion Monday evening on memory, how it functions and shapes who we are - and how accurate Hollywood typically is in depicting all of it. Leonard is desperately trying to find the man who killed his wife and knocked him out, leaving him without the ability to form new memories of anything after that horrendous night.
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