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Essay heading: Memento Film Review
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December 16, 2007 |
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The film is a kind of narrative test of alertness; visual clues - the scratches on Lenny's cheek, the smashed window of his car, the comments on his Polaroid pictures, his "memento" tattoos, the elusive "Sammy Jankis" parallel story - hint at the order of events but ensure that the solution, like the identity of the killer, lies tantalisingly out of reach right up to the end...
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Essentially a story of self-delusion, loss and the untrustworthiness of memory, the real villain of the piece is stagnation, of the inability to move on, of constantly being stuck between two places; Lenny's desire for revenge is driven by the murder of his wife but also the theft of his identity, the sense of who he is and how he relates to the world around...
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