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This movie really didn't give much cause to reflect about memory. The memory loss was just a plot device. In fact, the movie wasn't about much, but was still a well done action entertainment. I doubt that anyone learned very much from watching this, but if you did please let me know in a comment below. Of course, a person can learn from anything if it is approached with a thoughtful, questioning attitude, but I'm betting most students just watched it as entertainment. Here's your chance to prove me wrong. The above link will connect you to the main page for this movie at Internet Movie Data Base, and there you will find numerous other links to give you ideas relating to the movie, including reviews, a discussion board, trivia, quotations from the movie, etc. Even if you only watched the movie as entertainment, you can still write about what you did or didn't like about the movie, scenes that you thought were particularly good (or bad), comparisons to other movies (or books), etc.

I don't think that the movie had much to do with memory, or really anything to do with what we were talking about. It was an interesting movie, but I think that there were movies with a lot more to do with memory than this one. Too many people were just too wrapped up in wanting to see shit explode to appreciate a good movie with less action, but more depth and more to do with what we are talking about.

I think that The general basis for the plot of the movie had to deal with memory. The overall movie itself had nothng to do with memory, and not really a lot to do with what we have been studying. I don't think that The Bourne Identity was a bad choice of a movie to watch during class. We could have chose a movie that relates better to memory itself. Overall I think that the movie is a good movie, and I enjoyed watching it.

Though concious memory was only a plot device, the movie had a very big, if unseen, focus on sub-concious memory. From tying the ropes with special knots, to remembering how to fight in almost any situation, this movie emphasized the independence between concious and sub-concious memory.

I'd also like to add that, this aside, the storyline was very good (negating the very last scene), as was the action.

I didn't see where memory really tied in very significantly either. I understand that Bourne losing his memory of what happened during his assignment does somewhat relate, although I really do not believe that it had much to do with our unit on memory. It was really only a device they used to keep the movie going and to give it context. I think that people really just would have rather seen an action movie than something that really truly related to the topic fully.