After seeing Memento numerous times, the little details still fascinate me. I feel like it is a movie wherein you see more every time you watch it. Those little details are clues, much like we saw in previous texts. They play on memory, much like the majority of this film does. In the movie Leonard says, “I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next,” which is interesting to place in this movie because after each viewing you understand more and more about it and see the subtle details which may not be overly obvious the first time you view it. This movie is also ust as thrilling each time you see it because there are so many things that are needed and cannot be forgotten; and if they are the events will not add up and then the story lacks the believability.
This movie’s timeline is very similar to The Things They Carried because thing bounce back and forth and they are repeated numerous times to show their importance. For example, the scene often flashed to Leonard’s “remember Sammy Jankins” tattoo. The story is important which is why it comes up so often (I will not go into further details, at least not until my next blog post after everyone finishes the movie). Ideas in the movie come up again and again and everything makes sense by the end of the film, if only you take a moment to think back and relive the quotes and visual ques, much like we had to do with Aura. It will not be completely clear, and it will involve trust, and it will most definitely beg the question “who can we trust and what is real?”
As we go on with the movie, I urge everyone, if they have seen it or not, to pay special attention to…everything. If it is in the movie, it has a meaning to something else; everything in this movie is related to something else and to understand this movie you have to think and make those connections.
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