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AMNESIA

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Mervyn LeRoy's

Random Harvest (1942)

This is an improbable story that seems probable as you watch it.

It is very well done. There are scenes that are quite abstract and the restoration is very good.

Greer Garson and Ronald Colman deal with his post WWI amnesia and then his recovery.

It is touching in its way.

The resolution is quite modern. Freudian. Believable.

There were a lot of amnesia movies there for awhile. This is probably the best. No pat answers.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5 because it is very romantic and I am somewhat immune to the hearts and flowers thing.

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