? movie: Random Harvest. I was telling Georg the basic plot of I Love You Again when he said "Haven't you seen this movie already? No? Didn't you see another movie about a guy getting married while he has amnesia?"
Well what do you know, he's right. I forgot to write it up for the movie list but sometime during the summer I saw Random Harvest, a melodrama about Ronald Colman getting amnesia and marrying Greer Garson, then recovering his true memories, thus forgetting her along with the rest of his amnesia life. (I have to interject here, I'm not expert but I didn't think amnesia worked that way. But whatever!) I've heard this movie described as a brilliant romantic drama, but it really annoyed me. After he leaves her, Garson tracks Colman down and, rather than telling him who she is, takes a job as his secretary. She suffers silently for years, watching him court another woman and even eventually agreeing to a marriage of convenience so she can manage his social affairs. All the while she pretends to be satisfied with this abject subjugation. It's really quite appalling.
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