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Anyways, seen this movie 3 times now. incredible. i think last night i finally pieced most together, such a cool fucking film. who the hell comes upw ith this shit? damn good. any other memento fans?

Yeah I had a tough time watching it at first.. but once it was finished , sat there in amazment.. great flick

amazing!!! guy pierce and carrie-anne moss are brilliant in it!!! what a real mind bender....love it.

yes. now the questions...

what parts of sammy jankis story is true? which parts has Leonard constsccuted as his own?

my opinion. sammy was real, but you see leonard in the psychiatric home for a split second. we find out that leonards wife survived the attack but ended up dying because leonard gave her the too much insulin...and on the memento homepage..you find out that leonard had escaped formthe mental facility...

Fantastic movie. Definitely one you have to see more than once to fully appreciate.

Yes, I believe Sammy Jenkis was actually a man that Leonard worked with before the incident where his short-term memory was destroyed. But Leonard filled in his own life experiences that he didn't want to be true into Sammy. He essentially created a character of Sammy.

This is a great film. What I enjoyed was the way the movie was presented, going backward and forward until the times finally meet up. Guy Pearce was wonderful, making the viewer compassionate toward him and in the end, angry at his own ignorance to himself. Carrie-Ann Moss also did a great job, releasing this icy chill throughout the film. Joe Pantoliano was good as well, I thought. He gave the movie its humor.

This is a good crime thriller, and I expect great things from Christopher Nolan.

this is on my "need to see again" list....saw it once and thought it was excellent

Really good movie, one of my favorites.

A good, solid film, but I don't think it was anything terribly special. There are other more recent noir films I like better, Dark City, Mulholland Drive, LA Confidential.

another question is how much his memory problem was actually physical? we know for a fact that loud noises or sounds that startle him "erase" his memory. also, there was an instance in the film that clearly indicates the memory problem may be psychological. when he burned his wife's things, he sat in the field undisturbed quite a long time until dawn, never once forgetting. he may want to forget part of his past.

did anyone notice that flash at the end with "i did it" tatooed on his chest?

Just saw it.












Jesus christ.

yep. so did he find his wife again? did killing teddy finally stick? did she take him back? is she dead?

She died. The Sammy Jenkis story was apparently his story. He just used a man named Sammy that he met while working at an agency and Leonard shaped his mind to believe that Sammy went through these things - his wife having diabetes, his being in an institution and being tested with electrically charged objects, etc. There's a part of the movie where Sammy is sitting in a seat in the institution and when the nurse walks by, you see Leonard in his place, but only for a second before you're in another scene. We find out that Lenny's wife was the one with diabetes, the one who let him put her into a coma because she couldn't bear the life with him...

He trained himself to believe that his wife had been murdered on the night they were attacked and that the man named Sammy Jenkis was the one who had the same condition and whose wife died from an excessive amount of insulin injected at one time. Sammy was just a man Lenny had met along the way before his short term memory was lost. Leonard was pretty clever at corrupting himself.

See: Insomnia
Be: Disappointed


Memento is amazing though. I've seen it about ten times and I find something new I missed each time. I'm still confused as hell about it. Great flick. Freshman year of high school we had to create our own country for world geography and I named mine "Otnemem" (What a loser I am)

Ever notice that movies that aren't played in chronological order are usually more interesting than if they were played in chronological order. Good examples are Memento, Kill Bill, and Pulp Fiction. Kill Bill would have had terrible pacing if played in chronological order, however, Tarantino editing made it a great movie.