DonMac
Stunt Coordinator
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2000
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- 221
I saw Memento a couple of weeks ago and still think about this mesmerizing film. I think...
Spoiler:
...that everything Teddy said at the end (beginning) was true. Leonard killed his wife with insulin and Teddy helped him kill the real John G. two years earlier. Since then, Teddy has been using Leonard to get rid of drug dealers and other criminals. Leonard doesn't want to know the truth about his wife, it hurts and will continue to hurt him everytime someone tells it to him again. This truth both makes Leonard's life painful and meaningless, while the ongoing search for "John G." allows Leonard's life to have meaning, even if its a lie. So he decides to call what Teddy tells him a lie and make Teddy, the only one who who tells him the painful truth, his next John G. By eliminating Teddy, Leonard can continue his search for John G. without being reminded of the real truth. And, in his ongoing quest for a fictional John G., Leonard is like a modern Don Quixote attacking windmills, but its the only way for his life to have any sort of meaning. Otherwise, he'll be like Sammy Jankis just sitting there in a nursing home with nothing to do except watch commercials for the rest of his life.
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"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." - T. H. Huxley
Spoiler:
...that everything Teddy said at the end (beginning) was true. Leonard killed his wife with insulin and Teddy helped him kill the real John G. two years earlier. Since then, Teddy has been using Leonard to get rid of drug dealers and other criminals. Leonard doesn't want to know the truth about his wife, it hurts and will continue to hurt him everytime someone tells it to him again. This truth both makes Leonard's life painful and meaningless, while the ongoing search for "John G." allows Leonard's life to have meaning, even if its a lie. So he decides to call what Teddy tells him a lie and make Teddy, the only one who who tells him the painful truth, his next John G. By eliminating Teddy, Leonard can continue his search for John G. without being reminded of the real truth. And, in his ongoing quest for a fictional John G., Leonard is like a modern Don Quixote attacking windmills, but its the only way for his life to have any sort of meaning. Otherwise, he'll be like Sammy Jankis just sitting there in a nursing home with nothing to do except watch commercials for the rest of his life.
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"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." - T. H. Huxley