Memento

Why is it that Teddy leaves the drug money in "Jimmy's", "hot" car trunk, when he can snatch it at anytime?

Natile cares about her boyfriend, Jimmy, but doesn't finger Lenny for the hit, as he sits there in Jimmy's clothes?

Dodd attacks lenny in the street with a gun but after getting a bloody nose, heads for the hills? He just leaves town?

I enjoyed the time line, the score, and the issues of how we set out to rewrite what brings us discomfort. JDB.

BTW: The suit fit well enough, unlike suggested above, he was adjusting the camera's shoulder strap.

Why is it that Teddy leaves the drug money in "Jimmy's", "hot" car trunk, when he can snatch it at anytime?

Natile cares about her boyfriend, Jimmy, but doesn't finger Lenny for the hit, as he sits there in Jimmy's clothes?

Dodd attacks lenny in the street with a gun but after getting a bloody nose, heads for the hills? He just leaves town?

I enjoyed the time line, the score, and the issues of how we set out to rewrite what brings us discomfort. JDB.

BTW: The suit fit well enough, unlike suggested above, he was adjusting the camera's shoulder strap.

I'm still unsure regarding one issue on this movie; at the end when it shows the image of his wife lying on his chest and the tattoo "I DID IT" is on Lenny's left pec, the only way this scene makes sense to me is that he must be dreaming of the way he would like things to be. Since his wife is dead through the entire movie and we see that he never has that tattoo on his chest, how else could both his wife be alive and he have that tattoo?

After I watched it half a dozen times normally on DVD, it's kinda fun to watch it in time sequential order using the jump track feature--watch all of the black-n-white from beginning of movie to the end then work your way backwards through the color scenes. The movie DEFINITELY would lose a lot of punch if it wasn't told in reverse.

Also, Lenny gets those scratches on his face when he is wrestling with Jimmy.

I'm still unsure regarding one issue on this movie; at the end when it shows the image of his wife lying on his chest and the tattoo "I DID IT" is on Lenny's left pec, the only way this scene makes sense to me is that he must be dreaming of the way he would like things to be. Since his wife is dead through the entire movie and we see that he never has that tattoo on his chest, how else could both his wife be alive and he have that tattoo?

After I watched it half a dozen times normally on DVD, it's kinda fun to watch it in time sequential order using the jump track feature--watch all of the black-n-white from beginning of movie to the end then work your way backwards through the color scenes. The movie DEFINITELY would lose a lot of punch if it wasn't told in reverse.

Also, Lenny gets those scratches on his face when he is wrestling with Jimmy.

If you mean the "I DID IT" tattoo seen in one of the last shots of the movie, what it means is that he killed his wife when, out of frustration and desperation, she had Leonard give her too many insulin shots in a row in hopes of bringing him out of his condition. What that does for the plot of the story is help those who still didn't get what happened - even after Teddy just explained it to the audience, understand what went on.

As a stylistic choice, it's a visual representation of the character's point of view and state of mind. It's Leonard's guilty conscience revealing itself, mixing his true memories - lying in bed with his beloved wife - with false ones...which is something he's been doing consistently throughout the movie, the most elaborate and important of these being the Sammy Jankis story.

If you mean the "I DID IT" tattoo seen in one of the last shots of the movie, what it means is that he killed his wife when, out of frustration and desperation, she had Leonard give her too many insulin shots in a row in hopes of bringing him out of his condition. What that does for the plot of the story is help those who still didn't get what happened - even after Teddy just explained it to the audience, understand what went on.

As a stylistic choice, it's a visual representation of the character's point of view and state of mind. It's Leonard's guilty conscience revealing itself, mixing his true memories - lying in bed with his beloved wife - with false ones...which is something he's been doing consistently throughout the movie, the most elaborate and important of these being the Sammy Jankis story.

Leonard is a classic unreliable narrator.

Leonard is a classic unreliable narrator.