"Father Trapped in Time" - "hold me"

Adah 2022-04-20 09:01:44

Neuroscience tells us that AD patients will lose short-term memory in the early stage, and the memory of a long time ago will be lost in the middle and late stage. When I study, I just feel that these memories will disappear out of thin air. However, although the memory is broken or disappeared, those times really existed. In the brains of AD patients, are those fragmented or lost memories reconfigured and distorted according to time?

I think the movie has already told us the answer. When Anthony was in the nursing home, he shattered and reconstructed the memories of his own apartment, his daughter's apartment and the nursing home, so as to gain a "sense of security". So the faces of characters can appear in different identities, such as "Bill", I don't want to say much about the way this movie is, there must be someone who can say it better than me.

The only thing I think about is, if AD patients really forget all their memories, instead of shattering and reconstructing them, will they be happier? In this way, they have forgotten the passage of time, and just live by guarding the fading memories of the past... If I had the choice, I would choose the complete forgetting of the memory, rather than face the broken and twisted weight that broke me. build memory...

"My leaves are all gone", can you hold my hand at the end, pretend to be my mother and whisper my name, tell me that the sun is good outside, we should take a look...

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The Father quotes

  • Anthony: Can I ask you a question?

    Laura: Yes.

    Anthony: Are you a nun?

    Laura: No.

    Anthony: Then why are you speaking to me as if I'm retarded?

  • Anthony: I am worried. It's very worrying. I mean... Losing all my things, everyone's just helping themselves, and... If this goes on much longer, um, I'll be stark naked. And, um, I... I won't be able to tell what time it is.