It hadn’t yet been an hour and the solitude was tempting his sanity. The cold, concrete walls were lit just enough to keep them out of total darkness.
“How you liking prison?” the passing guard jeered.
Fighting the urge to say some witty comeback, he remained silent. He was still trying to comprehend what had happened earlier that day. It all seemed a blur. Keeping calm, he tried to focus on what exactly had just taken place.
He couldn’t think, nor could he remember anything. What had just happened? Had he had memory problems before?
Twelve hours earlier, as he sat down in his old, red sedan with black cloth seats, he noticed an unfamiliar note, written in his own hand writing, taped to the dashboard.
2065 West Ave.
10:05 AM
Black Van
Not unaccustomed to these notes, (as he often wrote them to compensate his short-term memory), he headed there. Wondering what was about to happen, he drove among the light, midday Los Angeles traffic and pulled into the tiny, deserted parking lot located on a street corner next to an abandoned gas station. No one around him, not even himself, could have known he was about to commit a felony.
Glancing at his dashboard clock, he saw he was 10 minutes early. ‘Early for what?’ he wondered. As he scanned the parking lot, his eyes fell upon the large black van, but he thought it best to wait until it was closer to 10 to approach it. Searching his car, he noticed in the back seat was an angular, white, plastic mask, completely featureless.
Nearing 10:05, three sedan doors simultaneously opened; out of each emerged a man clad in denim jeans, a black button-up shirt, and a replica of the mask he found in his car, b...
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...options, he came out with his hands up. He couldn’t believe it! He had just helped Blue get away, and he, the innocent White, was manipulated and stuck with two life sentences, left to rot in prison for the rest of his life.
Now, he was in the cops’ hands. He was beaten, handcuffed, thrown in the back of a police car, and taken to the station. By the time he arrived and they had started the inquisition, he had already forgotten all the details; but of course, the cops didn’t believe that.
“The guy wearing the yellow mask and the one wearing the red both died during the chase,” gruffed the hefty officer. “We just need you to tell us what you know about your little friend wearing the Blue mask,” but he was unable to provide any additional information. Eventually he was led to his cell, where he sat in solitude, at last forgetting everything that just occurred.
Unexpectedly due to Teddy’s high intellect he is released on probation to G-PIP (a gang prevention intervention program).
that he go see if anyone needed help. He drove around the area but saw nothing
Randall Blighton saw a silhouette of an infant in the vans window which now he says was a car seat. He felt that he couldn’t just pass by after he had just dropped off his own children with their mother. When he first arrived by the van he set out flares to make sure that everybody knew that the van was there. He then went to open the drivers side door and found that a woman’s purse was jammed between the accelerator and the firewall, that would explain the continually motion forward. He could see that a figure was lying across the front seat and that the head was tucked into the chest just over the passenger seat. He could see that the figure had on one loafer type on one foot that looked feminine. As he searched to turn on the emergency flashers and was unable to find them, not knowing that they were over head. He felt the floor to see if there was a baby. However, as he felt around he realized that the floor and seats of the van and realized why it was so hard to see through the drivers side window that was splattered with something dark, blood. Nevertheless, he felt it was more important to keep searching to find the baby instead of stopping. He shuddered and didn’t get how there could be so much blood in the van if it hadn’t been hit by another vehicle. Randall then hopped in the drivers seat and moved the van on to the shoulder of 79th where it met sunset highway.
The police and car owner follow close behind him, trying to get the husband to pull over. The use of the single frame displays the husband’s dark silhouette as the camera focuses on the rearview mirror where the police can be seen gaining on him. It allows the viewer to take in both storylines simultaneously. The husband is still racing home to help his wife, but the police in the mirror also show the duality of his worries as they literally and figuratively hang over his shoulder. Meanwhile, in the mirror, the police are seen trying to grasp the husband in order to get him to stop. The two spaces for the characters gives the chance for the film to focus on the overall plot progression versus the time cut between the husband and the police separately. It decreases the amount of time that audiences spend on one character and their storyline instead it forces them to understand the dynamics of every storyline and how they interact with one
Therefore, they summarize that the reason why Clive suffers in the Amnesia is caused by the hippocampus is not affected. The Hippocampus is a structure that is located inside the temporal lobe, and that is a part of the limbic system. The function of the Hippocampus is similar to a post office used for encoding, storage and recalling memories, all presenting information would first remain, analysed and encoded in the Hippocampus then transmit them to different areas of the brain. In other words, Clive is unable to encode memory and hold information which is currently aware, and it is difficult to form new long-term memory such as explicit and semantic memory. Clive Wearing, now 78 years old, still cannot recover from the anterograde amnesia, he becomes a man who has the shortest memory in the world.
Amnesia affects the memory. People diagnosed with amnesia lose memories that occur before the onset of amnesia. Amnesia affects the memory, how well you can store long term memory. If amnesia occurs, one might have trouble with long term memory in the future, or simply forget most of their past. Due to the brains plasticity, the brain can use association areas to help build memory. Amnesia commonly comes in two forms that occur together: Retrograde amnesia and Anterograde amnesia.
Many people enjoy a good film and at the end, they have the potential to judge the film by the content and delivery it had provided. In some films, the screenwriter chooses to portray one of the many psychological disorders. The audience of the film will try to focus on how well the disorder was portrayed and how well the movie played out. Whether the intention of the film maker was trying to expose the public about such psychological disorder or choosing to make a film based on the disorder, some viewers will argue if the film has portrayed the disorder accurately and whether the public has taken notice to the disorder. Screenwriter, Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, portrayed the psychological disorder, Anterograde Amnesia, in their film “Memento.”
of the use of the mask, gave no illusion that this story is happening before
Retrograde and Anterograde Amnesia Darling, what did you say was Sue's number? " I don't remember stripping at Dan's birthday party last year!" No officer, I don't know what happened after the accident. I can't even remember my name. " Amnesia is the partial or complete loss of memory, most commonly temporary and for only a short period of time.
If one has amnesia, they will have difficulty recalling facts, events, places, or specific detail (Barclay, 2016). The details can range from what one ate this morning to their birthday. Hollywood has fabricated the idea that by suffering with amnesia the first signs of symptoms include losing self-identify and ability to function normally. However, that type of amnesia is very rare and in reality, one with amnesia will still retain your motor skills, such as your ability to walk, as well as fluency in any languages you speak, and self-identity. In addition, there are many different types of amnesia with a wide range of
As a contrast to the humanity portrayed by Mr. Mead, Bradbury has mirrored the characteristics of progress in the police car. The car, as well as Mr. Mead, is associated with light. The light of the car, however, displays the absence of humanity. Rather than the "warm" light of Mr. Mead, the car possesses a "fierce" and "fiery" light that holds humanity "fixed" like a "museum specimen"--something from the past that should be looked at behind an impersonal plate of glass (105-06). When not holding humanity captive, the car's lights revert to "flashing ... dim lights," showing the absence of any real soul (106). The car is representative of several modern inventions, thereby embodying mankind's advancement. It is itself a robot, and it speaks in a "phonograph voice" through a "radio throat" (105-06).
“License and registration please.” He said. He goes back to his car with my license and registration all of my thoughts were going crazy and I didn’t know what to do but think “ What is happening?” I thought.
Amnesia is, by definition from DSM-IV, one or more episodes of the inability to recall important information or a total loss of memory. To begin, brain injuries or damage, strokes, seizures, lack of oxygen in the brain and tumors in the memory part of the brain are some of the ways that cause amnesia. Almost all injuries or damage to the brain will cause amnesia because of the chances that it will hit the memory part of the brain. In psychology, this disease can be viewed from a biological and cognitive perspective. Treatments can vary from hypnosis to being healthier. Ultimately, amnesia is accepted in society and people treat others with this disease better than others.