Memento. Long post, but worth the debate.

Memento presents an OVERWHELMING amount of mixed morals. Situations that audiences everywhere would handle differently--no two people are exactly the same.
There is a reason our loyalties and emotions are sporadic with the characters. We sympathize and like Leanord when we think he is avenging his wife (yet he is still planning murder, which is usually considered a morally wrong act. Is it acceptable in this case?). Eventually we see that he chooses to live his life constantly "finding the murderer"... that is already dead. A common reaction is for the audience to be appalled that Leanord makes the decision to make himself forget that he has already killed his enemy and to continue murdering in order to give his life meaning. Some may view it as selfish. (so is this to say that no one in the audience has made a selfish decision to improve their life? Or is it different because he is murdering? Is this where the line gets drawn? Is he not entitled to a happy life? After all, Teddy is giving him bad people such as drug dealers to kill. Do the drug dealers still deserve to live even though they have probably murdered others and have sold illegal substances? Why do they deserve to live a content life while Leanord does not?) Teddy also brings in a few questions of ethics. I know that I had mixed feelings about him throughout the movie. Is he a bad person for doing drug deals and helping Leonard kill people--even while being a cop? Or is he a good person for giving this person a reason to live? He seems to have sympathy in his heart.
The movie leaves more thoughts than just, "wow... now I know what he feels like when he doesn't remember things". Yes that is a very interesting idea, but when you dig deeper, you see that it is a clever way to set up all of these questions of ethics. that is the big picture here. Seeing the scenes in reverse toys with the audience's emotions. The director feeds one situation and then piles more variables on top to complicate the emotions--creating mixed feelings. Feelings so mixed that one might feel cheated at the end. It really just comes down to one's priorities.
Don't we all do the same thing, though? We choose what we want to believe. We choose so many things that make us content with our life. We create values based off of what life presents or deals to us. The literature in this class presents us with ideas to interpret. To accept or discard. It's our choice! Janelle has been trying, I think, to show us that not only does this happen in literature and the classroom, but in everyday situations in life. It could even be a situation like Leonard's. So are we really so different from Leonard? It is common to make hypocritical decisions and 'exceptions to the rule' all the time. so where is the line drawn? does that make us bad people? Again, it is your interpretation. What do you think?