50 First Dates - Though its old movie, thought of writing a review after i watched it now :)

50 First Dates is a romantic-comedy featuring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The plot of the movie revolves around the character Lucy, who has short-term memory loss due to a car accident. Adam Sandler, who plays Henry, starts off as a man who fooled female tourists in Hawaii to sleep with him. This all changed when he met Lucy at a café. This is where Henry wooed Lucy at first with his humor and charm, but little did he know that the next morning for their breakfast date, she would have absolutely no idea who Henry was. Henry then found out from Lucy’s father and brother that she had short-term memory loss and that they had no intentions for Henry to ruin there plans of reenacting all the events that happened the day she got in her car accident. Lucy’s father and brother printed out hundreds of newspapers that were printed the day that it all happened, which was her father’s birthday. Soon after Henry made a videotape showing all the details of what had happened to her through out the year she had had missing, and showed it to her every morning when she woke up. She then would realize whom Henry was every morning from the cassette and Henry would make her fall in love with him all over again. Lucy then broke up with Henry because she didn’t want him to live a miserable life. After time went by and Henry was off to sail to Alaska, he realized that Lucy had to have remembered him if she sang while he away from her because she only sang when she thought of him. Lucy then revealed that she would paint pictures of him because she would see him in her dreams. They then get married and have a kid and end up sailing to Alaska together while having her watch the videotape of her incident every day when she woke up.
After watching this movie numerous times it made me realize how horrible it must be to have either short-term or long-term memory loss. No matter how much the father and brother of Lucy in the movie, kept a happy smile in front of her, it is a real burden having to go through that everyday. Another thing that I realize is that not everyone is as lucky as Lucy was in the movie to remember things for a whole day. Others like the other character in the movie only remember what happens within 10 seconds and then forgets again.
This movie was a great balance of making it enjoyable yet a loving plot to watch and hear about, but it also had the intensity of the life of a person who had short-term memory. The dialogue in the movie made me actually laugh out loud, the humor was very accepting. I’ve always enjoyed romance-comedy movies such as this one because of the lightness of the story and the mood it gives me. The whole concept of Henry trying to make Lucy fall in love with him all over again everyday is very romantic and cute. It makes you realize about how many people out there, boys and girls who have situations like these happen to them and they continue to love these people. I loved how Henry went from being a type of man-whore, who slept with other women to have sex, to a loving guy who fell in love with one girl who couldn’t have been more different, but he accepted her very easily.

Nice movie...!! Enjoyment guaranteed...

Cheers,
Sudhan