When memories are erased, where will love be recorded? If the person you love has to forget you every day, then are you willing to touch her with your love every day and make her fall in love with you again? When the soulful ending song of Peter Siegel's film Fifty First Loves rings out, these two questions are always swirling in my head.
The story takes place on a small island in Hawaii. The funny and cheerful Sunshine Big Boy Henry is an aquarium researcher. At breakfast, he met a beautiful and lovely girl, Lucy. He helped her build a small house out of bread, and he fell in love with the owner of the small house, and Lucy also liked Henry's fishy body. When they broke up after breakfast, they made an appointment to have breakfast together the next day. However, when Henry walked up to Lucy the next day, he was surprised to find that Lucy did not know him anymore. It turned out that Lucy suffered from an extremely rare short-term memory loss after a car accident. Every morning when she woke up, she would forget all about the previous day. Her memory is forever stuck in the day before the car accident.
Loving someone, but she can't share the memory of love with you, or even no longer know you – this is undoubtedly a cruel love, or such a love should not happen. However, it was that encounter that made the affectionate Henry make a surprising move. Thus began a struggle between love and illness. Every day, he meets Lucy in a different way, then meets, then touches her heart, and then falls in love. In the night, Lucy forgot about him again, and the next day he started again... Finally, Henry recorded scenes of his and Lucy's lives, showing Lucy the tape every morning to know what had happened after she had lost her memory; and letting her know that she was her boyfriend—and later, her husband.
In the end, Lucy's memory was never fully restored. However, a love that seems impossible to get rid of a cruel fate is interpreted into a light comedy with tears and laughter in a romantic atmosphere - an unforgettable love, neither of them can give up, so they have a different kind of romance, every day is fresh love, every day is the first love, every time is the first kiss. Every scene and every line in the movie is with a relaxed and warm humor and optimism. After people smile, they feel a great warmth from love.
In the film, in order to continue the love, Lucy uses her diary every day to record the events of the day every day in order to integrate Henry into her past. But in fact, we know that what really continues her love is not a video or a diary, but in the depths of Lucy's life— where memory cannot reach— leaving indelible traces of true love.