Memento

Wow. I was really just wow-ing at this movie. I don't usually like not knowing anything that's going on in movies, but I think that not knowing anything while watching this movie was pretty cool because you sort of understand what Leonard is going through. The color sequence is going backwards while the black and white is going forwards until they come together at the end of the movie (which is sort of the beginning).

Leonard was the character we felt sympathy for because of his condition and were suspicious of Natalie and Teddy for taking advantage of him and his condition, but at the end of the film, we learn that he in some ways, used himself. He knew he was going to forget everything and wrote down clues to lead himself to kill the wrong man. He doesn't have much to live for except revenge. But I wonder what he's going to do after he killed Teddy.

At one point in the film, Lenny mentions how memories are unreliable because they can change and morph into things you've changed them to. This proves true as even though he's supposed to remember everything before the accident, Sammy Jenkins and what he did like killing his wife wasn't real (according to Teddy). Even though he's supposedly just not able to make new memories, he forgot that his wife was diabetic.

Memento suggests that memories are flawed and that 'the truth' sometimes isn't even true. What Leonard perceived as 'facts' like his documents and pictures and what he tattoed were in fact only what he chose to be true. He can't trust the people around him, but he can't trust himself either.

This was a really really good movie and I enjoyed it very much. But I don't get how Leonard knows he has a condition, as he tells everyone he meets.