There are little fragments of memories from my childhood that will often pop up in my mind out of nowhere; even after 15 years of existing on this planet. You would think that in that time all the memories I had obtained would have been long forgotten. But, quite frankly, my long term memory is actually quite outstanding. I really don't know how I'm able to remember such things in great detail. I could just be sitting down, doing my homework, when all of a sudden I'll remember a moment in my life, when I was like 5, and clearly remember every little thing and just be able to see it so vividly like it just happened a week ago.
Just a few days ago I remembered watching a movie when I was younger that really scared the shits out of me. I could still recall what happened in one particular scene where some guy with glasses pushed a lady - incidentally or accidentally, I don't really remember - down a long flight of stairs and presumably she died from it. The man then went over to a phone to call for help. While he was doing that you could see in the background that the woman was lying at the foot of the stairs but she was moving in a very eery way. One leg went up and she slowly started to bring the rest of her body up and walked awkwardly toward the man whose back was turned away from her. As she came closer to the screen you were able to see more clearly that her head had been twisted all the way around. So her head was facing the man, but her body itself was walking backwards. And then she tapped the man on the shoulder and said, "You pushed my down the stairs." That scene bothered me so much! And I was so young back then to even know what the movie was called. I don't even think my parents were really watching it, it was just on t.v. at the time.
I'm getting this all from what I remember and it only occurred to me recently that I look up that infamous line, "You pushed me down the stairs." on Google or Imdb, movie quotes, to see which movie it was that has left a deep impression on me; deep enough for me to remember one short scene after 15 years of seeing it.
I looked it up today and found out it was the movie "Death Becomes Her", starring Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Goldie Han. Discovering this now made me feel like, Wow, this is an actual movie! and not just a memory that I might have maybe mixed up with a dream. Throughout my life that scene would always revisit my mind and I would always question which movie it came from. It was probably one of the biggest questions I've ever had to ponder with and now it has finally been answered.
I think at one point, maybe when I was in Junior high, I thought that the line that was said was "I've fallen, and I can't get up." So I Googled that, but ended up with a commercial for medical alarms for seniors. Which was totally off from what it actually was. lol
It's funny how I can remember things from long ago, but easily forget things after 10 seconds in present time. Oh~ how the mind works!

Death Becomes Her (1992)
Also a scene that I remember that freaked me out was when Goldie Han was sitting in her bed and looks into a pocket mirror and sees her face being all demented and scary looking. I'm pretty sure it's from this movie too because I can see now that the face I remember seeing before looks a lot like Goldie Hans'. It was pretty disturbing..lol. I'm going to watch this movie now for the first time since I was 5 and finally get an understanding and some closure from this movie to answer my old childhood queries.
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