False Memory About Tracy Flick In Election

[Kaodi]

Some weeks ago the game show channel my Mom watches had Election on for their movie (because they show older movies in addition to older game shows). I recorded it on the PVR and just got around to watching in tonight. There was clearly a lot of things about the film I had completely forgotten. But the thing that surprised me was I had thought for years that Tracy Flick ended the film down and out pregnant with her baby of the teacher played by Matthew Broderick. But she was not pregnant, and his character was not the teacher she had an affair with.

I can understand how I could have gotten details of the movie wrong. But mostly I am curious whether I conflated Election with a different high school movie where an upstart female student ended the film defeated and pregnant. And so I come to you employ you as my hivemind in pursuing this (brief) inquiry as to what other film that might have been.

 

[FrogReaver]

Mandela Effect

 

[The Soloist]

This a case of Real 'False' Memory. Every time you reopen a memory, there is a chance it gets falsified in some way, by the addition, fusion or modification of facts. You become convinced the modified memory is true.

The most extreme case I read about was a journalist who was convinced he had been held prisoner by terrorists for several days after crossing into a dangerous country. When he talked about the event with his guide several years later, the guide told him they had been interrogated for 20 minutes at the border but turned away. He never crossed the border and was never captured. His fear of being captured had polluted his real memory of the events. The truth was a total shock to him.

In the case of the movie, maybe that is what you wanted to happen to the character. Somehow your mind adjusted your memory to fit your desire.

 

[trappedslider]

I can understand how I could have gotten details of the movie wrong. But mostly I am curious whether I conflated Election with a different high school movie where an upstart female student ended the film defeated and pregnant. And so I come to you employ you as my hivemind in pursuing this (brief) inquiry as to what other film that might have been.

Sugar and spice might be it