Memento Reflection

Have you ever had the feeling of deja vu or forgetting why you walked downstairs for no reason? In the movie Memento, Lenny, the main character, has a condition. He has short-term memory loss and it is his achilles tendon in finding his wife’s murderer. Throughout the movie, it is a wacked out timeline of events that goes from the present to the past, goes a little bit further before the present, but then jumps back further back in the story. It can be at parts difficult to understand, but every flashback gives the audience an important clue about the murder and soon changes what you thought was right into the complete opposite. Memento is a great mind exploding movie that I thoroughly enjoyed because it makes you question what is reality and what is fantasy. One element of the movie that was done well, was that it was very elaborately pieced together and makes you question how you should feel about certain people and situations. Each flashback that they gave you, gave you more information on Lenny and the

It was a movie that flipped charater analysis on its head because the actions we saw were at the end of the movie so the we are techincally watching the domino effect in reverse. We see the choices the characters are making and sometimes we just have no idea why, but it would later explain as the movie progressively went backwards. I enjoyed the concept of the movie and after the first time watching it it gave me this confusion because I wasn’t sure what to make of what. After watching numerous times I got a feel for what was happening and the reasoning behind the characters actions in certain situations. The movie made me question what actually had happened and what was a part of a delusioned past. This message can be carried to many others who have been brought up into a culture that they believe is just but in reality hurts