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• Memento

[ugryavas]

• Memento 💉

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Day 7 for the 30 Day Film Challenge: a film that you will never get tired of.

There are a lot of films I feel I will never get tired of, but one that I can truly watch over and over again is Memento. It’s a rare film that holds up after the first viewing, even when you know all the twists. I started rewatching it to get a better sense of the plot, but now, if I want to just lose myself for a few hours this is the movie I’m more likely to go to.

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One of the many things that makes Memento a good film is that the credits last the duration of a single song, and it’s a David Bowie song to boot. 

Also, I realized something I’d never thought of before when watching it tonight:

At one point when Leonard was tattooing himself I started wondering “when did he learn to do that? How does he remember how to do that?” And then I remembered how Leonard had mentioned that Sammy Jankis could do complex tasks as long as he had learned them before his injury... and while tattooing and administering an insulin shot aren’t the same, Leonard certainly must have learned how to sterilize a needle and where to prick himself and how if his wife was in fact a diabetic... 

I still maintain that Teddy was lying when he claimed “Sammy didn’t have a wife,” but I don’t think he was actively lying- I think he was misremembering or didn’t know the entire story. It just doesn’t make any sense for Leonard to have created such an elaborate story if he never met Sammy’s wife, or if Sammy didn’t even have one. Plus I feel like the guilt he carries due to the Sammy Jankis case just works really well with the narrative.

Lastly: watching this movie, it’s no stretch at all to believe that Guy Pearce was once a bodybuilder. That’s all.

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Two disconnected thoughts because I love consolidating posts like that

1. You ever watch a movie or something that someone you know really likes, and when you watch it you suddenly realize where a lot of their personality comes from? And you suddenly understand why they like it?

2. It’s weird but when I think about Memento, I think about the plot taking place from beginning to end, instead of end-to-beginning. It actually jars me watching the movie and seeing everything happen in reverse order, like my mind can’t make sense of it that way and has to re-order it.

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So today I found out a classmate/fellow songwriter has also written a song about Memento, just like me. Now I want to do a collaborative concept album.

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Random thought that just popped up in my head: god, I bet Leonard Shelby in Memento would have gotten a lot more done and understood what was going on more if he’d carried around a tape recorder instead of having to stop and write himself notes in order to remember things

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Rewatching Memento right now, and yes I know the plot is very serious and emotional and intense but literally all I can think of is how lucky it is that a major part of the plot requires Guy Pearce to be shirtless for extended periods of time

Then again, I’ve seen this movie so many times I can afford to not give the plot THAT much attention

Especially when half-naked Guy Pearce is onscreen