Sentences with phrase «story of amnesia»

Anna Faris is a gifted comedian, and the gender - flipping seemed as viable an excuse as any to dust off the story of an amnesia - stricken billionaire who gets a karmic taste of working class life and, you know, learns some stuff along the way.

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

Michael D. Lemonick is Chief Opinion Editor for Scientific American and author, most recently, of The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love.

Not exact matches

The debate is over the telling of the main character's story, which happens entirely in reverse (he has amnesia, and the viewer watches the ending of the movie and slowly views events preceding it).

Those people of God, so gifted at sliding into amnesia and forgetting their story and purpose, were summoned together frequently and inconveniently, to help them to recall what was most important.

I noted how the plot of common story deals with the threats of cultural amnesia, oppression, alienation, and death.

Provide you with an account of your birth story (believe me, amnesia sets in after labor!)

Your aim in this games is to pick up the hottest girls in town, try to seduce This game brings a interesting story to life with a good rpg, but the use of amnesia makes me think they could use the idea of always living in

This game brings a interesting story to life with a good rpg, but the use of amnesia makes me think they could use the idea of always living in On you can play more than online games for free.

But despite the number of subplots going on that include parallels to a particular commander - in - chief, amnesia, and betrayal to name a few, Vaughn and Jane Goldman manage to tell a story that gels just enough to avoid becoming incomprehensible.

In almost any other movie, the idea of propping your story up through amnesia would be an absurd, risible narrative course, but Liman, aided by Matt Damon, make the absence of self feel paramount in the film and its spectacular action sequences.

Boldly centered around the physical / emotional landscape of a widowed mother in her 70s (an elegant performance by veteran actress Lv Zhong), Red Amnesia is a ghost story of sorts, in which the return of repressed Chinese history asserts itself with a melancholic vengeance.

The Howling tells the story of LA - based television news anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace), who after suffering trauma - related amnesia after her involvement in a murder case goes on holiday with her husband to an isolated country resort called The Colony.

Based on S. J. Watson's highly successful debut novel, Before I Go to Sleep follows the intriguing story of Christine (Nicole Kidman) who, suffering from an acute form of amnesia, wakes up every morning not knowing who she is, where she is, or who the strange man (Colin Firth) laying in the bed beside her is.

The start of the story is slow paced as you slowly begin to learn the truth behind your amnesia.

A wicked politician suffering from amnesia could have been utterly ridiculous, but in Duran's hands, his story is a moving exploration of guilt and hard - won love that fearlessly dives into the dark undercurrents of Regency society.

The rest of the game followed this fragmented trend of lazily peppered story elements, lacking any genuine character development with our hero - which is one of the worst ways to handle the Amnesia Plot Device.

Given this life of constant fighting and mistrust it's hardly surprising, even given his amnesia, which plays a major part in the story, that Geralt is world - weary, calm, dry and often quiet.

There has been numerous games released under the indie survival horror game genre these last couple of years, most of these has created a mediocre to low critical praise while others such as Outlast, Slender and Amnesia: The Dark Descent has managed to create a rather positive buzz, so when I discovered Kholat I knew I had to read up on the Dyatlo Pass incident in which this game is based upon and I was pleasantly surprised the further I dug into both the game and the story.

The game follows the story of a mysterious character named Dust, a warrior suffering from amnesia.

Co-developed with The Chinese Room (developer of Dear Esther), Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs tells a different story of Oswald Mandus, who wakes up in 1899 from a serious fever with no recollection of who or where he is.

There is a huge amount of fan - made missions — or «Custom Stories» — for Amnesia, easily run straight from the launch window for the game.

Being fan - made most lack the subtlety of the main game but honourable mentions go to the stories La Caza, Abduction and Through the Portal which have all won a recent competition on the Amnesia forums.

The story for Demon Gaze goes like this: you have a character by the name of Oz who has amnesia.

Nippon Ichi Software's Second Novel: Summer Girlfriend 15 Minutes of Memory uses a common video game trope — characters stricken with amnesia — but its prelude and story are certainly unconventional: one of the game's stars, Ayano, jumps off her school's rooftop.

But Glory of Heracles I and II laid the foundation for the plot - heavy Glory of Heracles III, a story about a nameless immortal with amnesia.

Finding his identity is a major part of the narrative in Amnesia, and while not the best story, it is fun to follow along and learn how Daniel made his way to that room.

Using poetic images, the camera strolls through European cities, and impressive actors, Fiona Tan tells a moving story and puts her finger on the sore spots of our time: violence, amnesia, shock, loss of identity; being everything and everywhere at once, and yet nothing and nowhere.