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Amnesia Major 
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Married To a Stranger (1997) (TV Film) |
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A woman gets
off her knees and bangs her head on the kitchen |
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cupboard.
Haven't we all? But she falls on the floor and starts |
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calling
"Mammy". Now she thinks she's 16, not married and still |
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at school.
At hospital she talks to psychiastrist then husband |
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takes her to
other part of hospital where she has a catscan. |
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Still a
patient she walks out of the hospital and her husband |
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complains
"What kind of hospital is this?" But he had been sitting |
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in a chair
next to her bed and had fallen asleep. And I don't think |
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his
complaint was meant ironically. |
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And where
has she gone? To her parents' home where she asks |
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her dad what
has happened to his hair. |
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In fact
she's been married 20 years and has a sixteen year old |
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daughter. In
the way these films have of illustrating the search for |
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oneself she
goes through the junk in her parents' attic. |
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Later she
meets a nice, caring and handsome psychiatrist who |
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consoles her
with more junk like "You can't go back until you go |
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What follows
is a reassesment of her life. She always wanted to |
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be a painter
and she does this to loud 'teenage' music saying "it |
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gets me in
the mood". Well a teenager might say this. |
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Of course
the knock on the head has got her out of the deep rut |
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of married
life and being a mother had got her into, having to |
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subsume her
own ambitions in the interests of others. |
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But there's
a happy ending because she re-marries her husband. |
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I think this
is called affirmation. |
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Even if
you're sick with 'flu and the remote's fallen on the floor,
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make the
effort. You know which button to press, amnesia never reaches so far. |
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