MEMENTO

At first this film was a little irritating, constantly going backwards, it seemed like you would never get to the end.  As the movie went on, I would get more and more interested in finding out how the whole story started, just like when you are watching a movie and can't wait to find out the ending, this movie wanted you to find out what the beginning was.

I also noticed throughout the movie all the blue colors that were constantly protrade.  Whether they were dark blue, or light blue.  Blue is a claming color and maybe the director chose to do it in that way because, when the action did happen it would make you more excited, because you were clam. 

It seemed like the director just took shots of the scenes and played them in that form, instead of editing them, although I know you have to edit a film to keep some form of flow within the film.  The director did lots of extreme close-ups to Leonard's wife's face, I think he was trying to make that piece dramatic, so we could see that, that was one of the driving forces behind Leonard's madness in finding his wife's killer.  I think a lot of this movie was filmed in a subjective and indirect subject manner, as it seemed a lot of the takes were in close-up.

Leonard was always in a different room at the Discount Motel, it started with him being in room 304 then to 303, and 121, and then towords the end he came out of room 21, which just could have been missing the 1. Even though Bert told him at one point, they had checked 2 rooms out to him to make more money, I wonder if they really had many rooms checked out to him to make even more money.  I thought right at the beginning of this movie that the tatoo Sammy Jankins, was really who he was, but in his mind he thought of someone different. I think he created this other person in his mind, so he didn't have to face the fact that it really was him.  Throughout the movie it showed that Teddy was the bad person, but towards the end/beginning, I wondered if Teddy really was the good guy, and just tyring to help Leonard deal with what had happened to his wife.  Even though Teddy really was a dirty cop, because he was willing to let Leonoard kill people and still money.  I was surprised to find that the one perosn he really trusted Natalie, was really the bad person in this movie, and figured out that he was the person who hurt James, because of the clothes and car.  I never really did figure out why he wrote on Teddy's picture "don't believe his lies", because in actuallity that should have been the one person he did trust, because Teddy was honest with him throughout the movie.  He even told him his name was John Gemmill.

If Leonard really had a short-term memory loss, how was he able to know everytime that he had this condition of a short-term memory loss.  He was always able to tell people that he had this condition and that he wouldn't rememeber them in about 10 minutes.  Maybe Leonard just snapped after his wife's death and decided to makeup, that he had short-term memory loss, so if he ever got caught he would be able to use this in a court of law, and just be put in a mental institution, like he picture Sammy in one. I think Leonard will conitinue to go on and find all the people named John G. and continue to kill them, becaue he never realizes the fact that he had already killed people with those initials.