"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams." —H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
O gosh, you're right. Now I have to go back and search again. The premise was that they were married, he went somewhere (war maybe?) and came back sans memory and ended with them falling in love again. His memory started to come back while waiting at the altar, twiddling the wedding ring. Aargh! I need to get to the bottom of it.
It could be either, and the truth is, it might even be both 🤣🤣. I have seen all these multiple times, but it's been ages. I guess what sticks most for me is the conversations they prompted, which seemed so grown up to me at the time. How meta to be having a convo about amnesia, while not quiet remembering the details.
I've had so much fun looking these up and there are so many films which dealt with amnesia over the years. Most of them were great.
The first one that springs to mind is the old Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr movie, AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (I had to look up the title, what can say...amnesia (sigh). I watched it with my mother when I was less than 10 and it was the first film that provoked that what would you do response in me, and I became obsessed with the idea that films and books elicited the need for discussion.
More recently, and a book, is THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O, which left amnesia a bit more ambiguous.
One thing I hate is when amnesia is used as a lazy plot device when it's clear the author has run out of ideas to pull threads together.
Okay, you're entering a winning conversation, because I ADORE An Affair to Remember and have seen it countless times (now I'll just have to fight the song not bouncing around in my head all day, lol). But, and I don't mean to be *that person* ... there's no amnesia element in An Affair to Remember...more like hiding from or ghosting, if I can apply that modern term retroactively and not fall into spoilers. 😉
O gosh, you're right. Now I have to go back and search again. The premise was that they were married, he went somewhere (war maybe?) and came back sans memory and ended with them falling in love again. His memory started to come back while waiting at the altar, twiddling the wedding ring. Aargh! I need to get to the bottom of it.
Oh! Is that I Love You Again (1940) with William Powell and Myrna Loy? Or Random Harvest (1942) with Greer Garson and Ronald Colman?
It could be either, and the truth is, it might even be both 🤣🤣. I have seen all these multiple times, but it's been ages. I guess what sticks most for me is the conversations they prompted, which seemed so grown up to me at the time. How meta to be having a convo about amnesia, while not quiet remembering the details.
I've had so much fun looking these up and there are so many films which dealt with amnesia over the years. Most of them were great.
I fully relate to that it could've been both as much as either! 😂
And now you need a rewatch of An Affair to Remember. 👏
Good plan
The first one that springs to mind is the old Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr movie, AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (I had to look up the title, what can say...amnesia (sigh). I watched it with my mother when I was less than 10 and it was the first film that provoked that what would you do response in me, and I became obsessed with the idea that films and books elicited the need for discussion.
More recently, and a book, is THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O, which left amnesia a bit more ambiguous.
One thing I hate is when amnesia is used as a lazy plot device when it's clear the author has run out of ideas to pull threads together.
Okay, you're entering a winning conversation, because I ADORE An Affair to Remember and have seen it countless times (now I'll just have to fight the song not bouncing around in my head all day, lol). But, and I don't mean to be *that person* ... there's no amnesia element in An Affair to Remember...more like hiding from or ghosting, if I can apply that modern term retroactively and not fall into spoilers. 😉