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Typically, a character will incur some sort of head injury causes them to lose their memories of earlier events (clinically, this is referred to as retrograde amnesia). In her article, Baxendale lists over 50 films that use amnesia as a plot device, almost all of which contain common misconceptions about the condition.

We chose to screen and discuss Memento because it is one of a tiny handful of films that depict the condition accurately. (A podcast of the question and answer session is available here.)Īmnesia, or memory loss, is a popular plot device in films, but as clinical neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery notes in this 2004 British Medical Journal article it is almost always depicted inaccurately. In the last of the current series, we watched Christopher Nolan's 2000 film Memento, and this was followed by a question and answer session with UCL spatial memory researcher Hugo Spiers, science writer and editor Simon Frantz and myself. I was at the Clapham Picture House yesterday afternoon for CineSci6, a series of events exploring the science behind films. Christopher Nolan's 2000 film Memento, starring Guy Pearce and Carrie Ann Moss, is one of the few accurate cinematic depictions of amnesia.