Prosopagnosia Faces In The Crowd Analysis

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The way Faces in the Crowd depicts Prosopagnosia shows how a woman learns to live with a change in her lifestyle while also being chased by a serial killer after being attacked and receiving a head injury that caused her to get Prosopagnosia. When she first wakes up in the hospital and cannot recognize her friends or her boyfriend, it seems like a simple case of confusion from receiving the head injury, but later on when you see how people’s faces change whenever she stops looking at them it becomes stressful. The movie shows how Prosopagnosia is not just about not being able to recognize a person, but also about how a person’s facial features change every time they are looked at. It is especially stressful when not only the faces of strangers

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