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Clean Slate

3/6/2013

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  A private investigator loses his identity and memory nightly after he is caught in an explosion, and must hide his condition until he can testify against a dangerous crime lord. 

  M. L. Pogue wakes up each day without any idea who he is, or what has happened the previous day.  His injury, the collateral damage of a car bomb, has left him with identity loss.  Pogue listens to a cassette recording every morning to learn who he is and what has happened.  His testimony - which he recorded prior to his injury- is vital to the District Attorney's case against Cornell, the criminal responsible for the bombing.   Pogue must keep his condition a secret or risk letting Cornell walk free.


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Adit Gupta
2/7/2016 08:10:17 am

Detective M.L. Pogue has to figure out who he truly is and how he can start remembering his life.

Clean slate is a fantastic movie based on a Detective and his mental illnes. After receiving a head injury on a case, private eye Maurice Pogue suffers from a form of amnesia in which his short-term memory is wiped clean every time he falls asleep.

Throughout the movie, the theme that runs is that Pogue can not figure out who he is after a night of sleep. This condition is specifically called "retrograde amnesia".

Retrograde amnesia targets your most recent memories first. The more severe the case, the farther back in time the memory loss extends.With both anterograde and retrograde amnesia, it is important to understand that people's explicit, or episodic, memory is normally what's lost. Though in the movie Pogue did not seem to forget his motor skills, his short and long term memory was heavily damaged.

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