Woman loses her memory in the end [closed]

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Unfortunately, I don't remember much about the movie.

It was sort of about a man and a woman getting or being together. And in the end the woman lost her memory somehow. (maybe even by him? Or on her own behalf?) One of the last scenes shows her randomly walking by the man on the street but she doesn't even recognize him. He does recognize her but decided that it was better to leave it at that; I don't remember why. I also don't remember how the memory loss actually happened.

I watched it like ~10 years ago in German TV, however it looked like an American production.

I believe that he knew or even caused the memory loss on her because he knew it was better for her; even if she wouldn't even know him anymore after that.

Maybe she had memories of some kind that really screwed her up and it was so bad, that in the end he decided to get her memory erased, even if that means losing her, but she would feel better.

As far as I remember the movie had a really great story and I wish that I could find and watch it again.



Best Answer

You might be looking for The Butterfly Effect from 2004 starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart.

It is actually a movie about time travel.

Here the plot from wikipedia explaining her memory "loss":

Growing up, Evan Treborn and his friends, Lenny and siblings Kayleigh and Tommy Miller, suffered many severe psychological traumas that frequently caused Evan to black out. [...]

Seven years later, [...] Evan discovers that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he can travel back in time and redo parts of his past. [...] there are consequences to his revised choices that dramatically alter his present life. [...] Eventually, he realizes that, even though his intentions to fix the past are good, his actions have unforeseen consequences, in which either he or at least one of his friends does not benefit.[...] He ultimately reaches the conclusion that he and his friends might not have good futures as long as he keeps altering the past, and he realizes that he is hurting them rather than helping.

Evan travels back one final time to the day he first met Kayleigh as a child. He intentionally upsets her so that she and Tommy will choose to live with their mother, in a different neighborhood, instead of with their father when they divorce.[...]

Eight years later in New York City, an adult Evan exits an office building and passes by Kayleigh on the street. Though a brief look of recognition passes over both of their faces, they both decide to keep walking.

There are different endings, and the first one in that video corresponds to what you described (it also include the part where he upset the girl):




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