Memento

This film really struck me. Not just with its' plot-line or the acting but with the actual way that it was filmed.

I loved how it started from the end and went to the beginning. I've never seen a film like that before. On top of that, there was this sort of repetition that could be found throughout the movie. The scenes with him taking picture, or him talking on the phone with "Teddy". This repetition served as a sort of parallelism between the film and Leonard's fleeting memories.

Also, it was very interesting how the theme of the movie was discovered in the very end. Usually, there are hints throughout films that tell us what the director is trying to show/teach us but this lesson came in the very end. When he wrote under Teddy's picture, "Do not believe his lies". That was a very scary moment. Because it shows us how not only how memories can be deceptions but also how a person can control his life. By writing down that one thing, Leonard changed everything.

Lastly, a point that really took me aback in the film was what Leonard said, "There are no such things as memories. There are only facts." Is that true? Don't memories lead to facts? Can't one not exist without the other? Can't both be altered? And ultimately, I believe that to be the reason in Leonard's figurative demise - he didn't have both. He only had the facts. Which are really useless without the memories.