That's because DRAM, like an amnesiac, forgets everything it knows each time the PC is shut down.

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Damon earned the top spot mainly through his work playing an amnesiac spy in the Bourne trilogy.

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The thriller stars Rosario Dawson as a hypnotherapist attempting to help James McAvoy's amnesiac art thief remember where he hid a stolen masterpiece.

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But the savior is that I think there's an amnesiac effect on you when you sit down and the lights go off and you watch the movie.

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It isn't a massive film like "Batman" so you have to give away a bit of it and hope that the amnesiac effect that's part of the subject of the film is working on the audience as well.

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In 2007, Demis Hassabis, a research fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London, and his colleagues published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing in five amnesiac patients an impoverished ability to imagine and describe future events.

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It shuttles breezily between the present day, in which an L.A. detective named Mike Church (Branagh) is trying to discover the identity of an attractive amnesiac (Emma Thompson), and the late forties, in which a European composer and conductor (also Branagh) may or may not have murdered his pianist wife (also Thompson).

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