This movie starts interestingly with the key object that helps the main Character through his daily struggles of short-term memory loss. The victim’s memory only lasts about 15 minutes before he loses track and refocuses on his motives.
This movie is like a mixture of Peter Segal’s 50 First dates and Showtime’s television series Dexter in one film. It’s got the love story in which people wish that Leonard finds what he is looking for completing the world of loops of 15 minute memory sequences. The protagonist is determined to get revenge on the person that did a terrible act of raping and killing his wife, a similarity to the series Dexter, a good man gone bad for the lust of revenge. Different backgrounds, but both get the sense that their killing is somehow “justified”.
Flash-backs happen, I’m starting to get on the fence. Is Leonard being helped or is he really being set up?
The editing within the movie represents the bits and pieces of memories that Jimmy the protagonist desperately wants to remember. The film is written in a sequence in which it’s creative and holds your attention. For example if the Film was represented in numbers I would almost say that it was written in a 4-3-4-2-1 representing the loops of memory loss that Leonard constantly deals with.
Shots that were filmed and edited to represent how Leonard is reminded of his experiences. Some shots introducing to a scene shows the protagonist flipping through the candid and still picture shots to help recall events. Tattoos seemed to be a representation of Leonard deep down knowing the truth about the tragedy of his wife’s death, the placement of the tattoos was a key to my understanding.
As the movie progressed you could begin to understand that the story is told backwards in a sense. Scenarios are playing out, you can see that the opening credits and opening scene create a plant and payoff moment. If somebody isn’t watching the film close enough, they might be a little confused. This type of introduction to a movies was different to me, I had to rewatch the first 5 minutes again just to better my understanding of the film.
At first, and then I made the connection throughout the rest of the movie. After watching the film, I feel like I would see characters intentions and acts so differently.
Overall to summarize this all up, I would definitely watch this movie again with confidence that I would see something or look at a scenario a different way that It would probably make the movie just as interesting as the first time I viewed it. It’s kind of like inception being interesting how this is a Director’s representation of what short term memory loss could be like, and represent what it might feel like in some instances. For example, habit works well with humans, but thinking back to the film 50 First Dates when Henry comes into the picture, there were several attempts at wooing Lucy and eventually the dating began, there were moments in which Lucy would become aggravated with her accident and long-term effects and with her memory loss. Mistrust occurs out of the frustration of lack of memory and building a new life that changes habit, the question occurs to the victim is this my doing or is somebody else building this life for me which also occurred in Memento.
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