memories and time

After watching the beginning of the movie, I started to wonder what causes manipulation. Solely based on the movie it seems to be two main causes of manipulation. Either time, or memories, but memories are intertwined with time. However, when manipulation is used, memories have to the ability to stand on its own. That is because memories orbit emotions themselves, and emotions such as love, hate, joy, sadness transcend time. Manipulation in the direct approach attacks the emotions of the one being manipulated. It is through emotions people blindly walk into manipulation. In the movie the protagonist may not remember, but he still has his emotions that transcends time. That is why when he looks at the tattoo across his chest he feels anger, and love for his dead wife. In addition, time itself can be manipulated. It is through his inability to place events in a linear line that allows for his environment to manipulate him. Literally it is the fact he cannot tell what event came first, that displays manipulation at work. Being manipulated through time shows that the individual is dependent on his environment. While being manipulated through memories shows internal forces that the person is unable to control. Both forms of manipulation show that a person is dependent on something else, the individual is not rational and it is because of this, society, is able to manipulated the person. If a person cannot think or feel through a rational mindset then they shall remind in a world constructed in order to see never the truth; therefore they live in a world engulfed in manipulation.