Short-Term Memory Loss In The Film, Dates: Henry Roth

50 First, Dates is a movie about a veteran doctor named Henry Roth who falls in love with a girl who suffers from having short-term memory loss. This vet is a playboy, who doesn’t take relationship serious and loves to engage in non-monogamous with different ladies. That is up until he meets Lucy Whitmore at a diner. Lucy isn’t your average girl that henry is used to. Due to a car accident that Lucy was in with her dad, caused her to have short-term memory loss. Meaning every night all her memory of that day erasers and the only memory that resides in her brain is the ones before the accident. Meaning she keeps reliving the day of the accident over and over again. When Henry and Lucy meet, they hit it off and spend the day together. Lucy not knowing she has short term memory loss …show more content…
Once Henry realizes about her condition, he stays persistent in wanting to be with her. Lucy's family doesn’t like henry because they feel as though he is going to mess up the system they have already created for Lucy, so she wouldn’t realize that she has short-term memory loss. Every day her dad and brother, recreate the last memory she had, just so they could save her from that burden. It been two years since the accident and nothing has messed up that system they had, up until henry walked into her life. Everyday henry would reintroduce himself and spend the day with her. Henry is willing to go above and beyond to find imaginative ways to win over his dream girl every day. After Lucy realizes she has a condition, henry starts making videos help Lucy remember what she did the other day. Until one day, Lucy decides to let her family and henry go, so they don’t have to feel this burden. So she decides to go a place that can help her cope with her condition. Henry being in love with her, can’t seem to let her go, but to respecting her wishes he does leave. Soon after henry realizes the length of his love for