forgetting the plots of novels and films etc

today i tried to remember what happened in wuthering heights and couldn't remember any of it, even tho i liked it a lot

I tend to forget plots of short stories. What's enough is a sentence or three: a wry bit of business, a description, something a character said.

god, all the time all of a sudden. like, books i read a week ago. lol old.

Movies stick far less than books for me.

Oh, there are scores of novels and films I've experienced that I couldn't describe now beyond a vague premise.

Everything tends to smush together after I've done reading/watching/whatever it.

Best things in life don't have plots -- its all people, places, ideas.

cannot remember a single thing about pride and prejudice

I keep vaguely remembering there's this weird M. Night Shyamalan type twist at the end of the Passion of the Christ movie but I'm not sure

It turns out Jesus was dead the whole time.

Dead for our sins.

I tend to remember everything. My wife will sometimes make it halfway through a movie and then suddenly go, oh, I've seen this before.

Wuthering Heights: she marries some other dude besides Heathcliff at the end
Pride & Prejudice: she marries the neighbor at the end

that's about what I remember

for me this is dickens. i mean they all kind of start off poor and then end ~content~ and ~older~ and hopefully the crims get arrested but in between is like whaaa

I tend to remember everything. My wife will sometimes make it halfway through a movie and then suddenly go, oh, I've seen this before.

Well, I never forget the fact that I've seen something, just the details.

i was trying to tell my son the story of hansel & getyl this morning and I ccouldn't figure out how the breadcrumbs connect to the gingerbread house.

My wife will sometimes make it halfway through a movie and then suddenly go, oh, I've seen this before.

this happens to me, too; i inherited it from my mom i think. she’s a huge fan of murder mystery novels and TV shows, and always claims that she doesn’t mind reruns because she can never remember the ending(!)

I can never remember the plots of books, even if I remember liking them. Who the first 3 characters introduced were + maybe some weird little vignette or idea in the middle is usually my limit. I'm also bad for buying books and then not reading them, which means that when I finally look at the shelves for some new reading matter I see 4 books by the same author and have a vague feeling I've read 2 of them but have no idea which, even after reading the back and flicking through.

I do worry about this, like, is my memory really terrible or am I reading things wrong, like I think I'm reading the words and thinking about them and following the plot, but am I really just turning all the pages one after the other as nothing more than a quest to reach to the end of the book?

Films/TV shows are a bit better; I don't always remember the exact ending but I can usually tell fairly quickly if I've seen them before. Maybe I have a visual memory or uhhh something.

I do worry about this, like, is my memory really terrible or am I reading things wrong, like I think I'm reading the words and thinking about them and following the plot, but am I really just turning all the pages one after the other as nothing more than a quest to reach to the end of the book

Yeah, i think about this quite often.

i'm better about remembering plots since i figured out how to deal with my adhd, but they're still the least important part of a work of art for me. i'm more interested in mood and emotion.

Well, I never forget the fact that I've seen something, just the details.

I don't believe this for a second.

What don't you believe?

I have a good memory for things like facts and dates, but not as good for conversations and stories.

You're so excellent about remembering details!

i feel less guilty about not being much of a reader these days because i can barely remember things about books i know i loved 20 years ago
~all is fleeting~

Think Alfred is buying into the fallacy that someone with a good memory remembers EVERYTHING. Which, with the possible exception of a certain Borges character and a certain Hitchcock character, is not true

two hours after ever chris nolan movie i forget why i watched it