The Amnesia Trope: When Hollywood Gets It Right and SO Wrong

The Take
30/07/2023 13 min
The Amnesia Trope: When Hollywood Gets It Right and SO Wrong

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Amnesia is often used as a plot device on screen, but memory loss in real life often looks quite different from what we see in movies & shows. So what are the real thematic reasons filmmakers keep returning to their Hollywood vision of amnesia?
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