Daily Dialogue — April 17, 2015

“I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can’t remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there. Do I believe the world’s still there? Is it still out there?… Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I’m no different.”

— Memento (2000), screenplay by Christopher Nolan, short story by Jonathan Nolan

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Amnesia.

Trivia: The medical condition experienced by Leonard in this film is a real condition called Anterograde Amnesia — the inability to form new memories after damage to the hippocampus. During the 1950s, doctors treated some forms of epilepsy by removing parts of the temporal lobe, resulting in the same memory problems.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the most fascinating treatments of amnesia in movie history.

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