In Memento, a movie starring Guy Pearce (Lenny), a man (Lenny) is on a quest to find the murderer of his wife and avenge her death. During her death the murderer whacked lenny across the head and made him have a very rare form of amnesia where he cannot create new memories. The interesting this about this neo-noir is that it is told backwards. We start the movie with the killing of the killer but every scene is what previously happened RIGHT before the scene we just saw. it was very confusing to watch over a 4 day span (especially with thanksgiving break) but i still LOVED the film and it has been my favorite so far in art of film.
What i wanted to talk about in this blog was how this movie makes us think. It happens a few different way, msot obviously the way the story is told. If ou dont keep tabs or are actively involved with the story then there is 0 chance you understand the plot. So you have to think to even follow with the movie (Katie Rosecrans). Deeper then that this movie makes us think about humanity, what we can do for happiness. At the end of the movie (or the beginning) we see Lenny kill someone who he believes raped and murdered his wife. Immediately after he and his friend chat about how all of Lenny's life is a lie becuase without the purpose of revenge and anger he has nothing to live for so Lenny conditions himself to belelvie that was the killer, immediately forgets it and creates a new killer to find. Now i personally belvieve that this is an exaggerated view on human nature. Like teddy says "so what, you lied to yourself to be happy. Everybody does it". I 100 percent agree with that statement. Whether it be if were happy with our place in society, like our jobs, or even our relationships. as humans our life goal is to be happy "who cares if you dont know some of the detals".
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