Psychological Issues In The Movie 50 First Dates

The movie 50 First Dates, is about a man named Henry Roth (Adam Sandler), who lives an ordinary life. He is a veterinarian in Hawaii, and he persuades women tourist that he is someone special. When they leave, he tells them he can’t keep in contact. This goes on until he meets a local girl by the name of Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore) and then falls in love. This movie contains several psychological issues that makes up the plot of the film. The first psychology issue in the film is due to a wreck that Lucy Whitmore is involved in. The wreck caused damage to her temporal lobe. Since the temporal lobe involves processing sensory information and retention for visual memories, she suffered from short term memory. In the movie, every day she …show more content…
Henry shows a phenomenal example of true love all throughout the movie. As soon as Henry meets Lucy, he instantly falls in love with her. After seeing her the first day, he makes plans to see her again the next morning. As this happens, Henry learns that Lucy loses all memories of her day when she falls asleep at night. As most people would give up on trying to pursue this relationship, Henry doesn’t give up. Henry returns to the shop many days in a row, and attempts to make a lasting impression on Lucy. Even though this doesn’t work, eventually he began to have a relationship with her because of the film Henry made for Lucy. Every morning Lucy would wake up, watche the film, and relive everything that happen all over again and Henry managed to make Lucy fall in love with him every single day. This is the second psychological issue in the movie, the last psychological is Henry’s …show more content…
This can be shown as he pauses his life in order to keep Lucy happy. He proves this by working with Lucy’s dad and brother to keep her happy. One example would be canceling his trip to go study walruses in the north. He eventually goes on this trip but, not until he is married to Lucy, has a child and continues to make her fall in love every day. This just shows how unselfish he is and how much affection he has for this girl. These psychological topics all combine to make the movie and lead it towards its turning point. The turning point of the movie is shown close to the end. This is when Henry can no longer take not seeing Lucy on a daily bases. He is on his boat when he realizes this and turns the boat around to go and see Lucy. When he arrives at the mental facility that Lucy is at he goes and talks to her to see if she remembers him. She tells him that she doesn’t know who he is but, she has dreams and draws paintings of him. This encourages Henry to stay with her and then he later marries her and has a