I’m still trying to fully comprehend Memento. I understand the true story but the way the director filmed it, using sequence, there’s multiple stories within the actual story. In the beginning of the movie, you believe Teddy is the bad guy who raped Lenard’s wife. At the end of the movie, you learn that Teddy is actually the cop that worked Lenard’s case.

This movie just made me really reconsider how I can approach my sequence project. I can try telling a story backwards or maybe alter what actually happened by placing the photos in a different order to create my own personal narrative. This movie helped me see this sequence project in a new light.

One thing that I thought was interesting with this movie was how similar Sammy and Lenny’s names are. Just how they’re both nicknames for full names that contain the same about of letters. I don’t know if the director or writers did that on purpose to make it more believable that Lenny made up the story about Sammy or not.

I like how Lenny wrote little reminders about the people he met. It makes me think about how I could possibly incorporate text into my own sequence project. After watching this movie, I have a better idea of what to do for my sequence project.