Lennie has a problem. He can't remember. Well not really, in fact his condition, so he tells us many times, is, that he can't create new memories. Not entirely without memory, he has long term memory. These memories constitute a knowledge of past events, or of the pastness of past events. However, even this memory for Lennie, seems to be impaired - fixated, stuck, like the replaying of cracked record, around the events that caused his disablement. These events are traumatic and violent - the rape and murder of his wife by two home intruders, and his own bashing and subsequent severe head injury. These facts, or so we think them, can only be ascertained from delving backwards into the shattered fragments of the pathological status of Lennie's mind and memory.

Christopher Nolan's film Memento explores not only the paradoxical nature of memory and its relation to forgetting, but also the uses and abuses to which memory can be put. Just as memory is necessarily backward looking and......

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Title: Memento
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