Me, Myself, and Lies

The movie "Memento" was confusing, exciting, and shocking. My favorite part about the movie was that every time I thought I had figured it out, the plot twisted again. In the beginning, the viewer was led to believe that Teddy was the killer. You start to worry about Leonard spending so much time with him, but then you begin to feel better because at least Natalie is someone who is there for him, helping him out. You later find out that Teddy is Leonard's true friend and that Natalie is the one that you should have been worried about. The movie took the viewer through so many viewpoints, and revealed information in very small increments, so that almost every ten minutes there was a different idea. The story kept evolving with every new detail, and the premature opinions that I had formed were completely destroyed, rebuilt, and destroyed again. It really made me think about how, without having all of the necessary information, people can make judgements and conjectures that make perfect sense to them, but are completely wrong. This happens in everyday life, where we are given bits of information and we draw conclusions but then realize that what we had imagined was nothing like the truth. When, at the end, we realize that Leonard's wife had actually sort of killed herself, you realize exactly how you went wrong in your other guesses, which is exactly what happens in life when we are confronted with the truth after having formed inaccurate ideas.