Ned Flanders
Banned
FANTASTIC FUCKING MOVIE!!!! This movie literally has altered my state of mind over the last 24 hours (began watching it late last night, some again this morning, and finally finished it earlier).
The surreal feeling not only from watching the movie, but from imagining living with Leonard's condidtion is something which words cannot describe. It seemed as though he were living in some kind of perpetual hell, and in a way I think that the film challenged the notions of trust as much as memory itself (or perhaps it exposed the link between them).
Guy Pearce is the fucking man as usual (never noticed his striking voice before this film however), and being as this is the first film I've seen (that I'm aware of) from Nolan, lets just say that he officially has my greenlight of freedom to do whatever the fuck he choses with Batman. It would have been hard to handle a script this unique/complex any better than he did, and although the "from back to front" approach will always be grating to some extent (covering a lot of the same territory over and over again), the movie was never any harder to follow than the material dictated.
Now, for some spoilerific questions:
**SPOILER ALERT**
1. Assuming that Leonard was unaware his wife didn't die because he was struck in the head before the police arrived etc, how was he able to recount the "Sammy Jankis" wife-insulin-suicide scenario (which Teddy alleged was in fact Leonard's wife, whom he had killed with the insulin thanks to his disease)??
2. To further that point, how come he couldn't remember the fact that his wife was diabetic despite the fact that all his memories prior to the incedent were intact?
3. If Sammy Jankis didn't have a wife, why did he remember her in his pre-trauma memories?
4. Dodd was...someone associated with the drug dealer (Natalies bf)??
The surreal feeling not only from watching the movie, but from imagining living with Leonard's condidtion is something which words cannot describe. It seemed as though he were living in some kind of perpetual hell, and in a way I think that the film challenged the notions of trust as much as memory itself (or perhaps it exposed the link between them).
Guy Pearce is the fucking man as usual (never noticed his striking voice before this film however), and being as this is the first film I've seen (that I'm aware of) from Nolan, lets just say that he officially has my greenlight of freedom to do whatever the fuck he choses with Batman. It would have been hard to handle a script this unique/complex any better than he did, and although the "from back to front" approach will always be grating to some extent (covering a lot of the same territory over and over again), the movie was never any harder to follow than the material dictated.
Now, for some spoilerific questions:
**SPOILER ALERT**
1. Assuming that Leonard was unaware his wife didn't die because he was struck in the head before the police arrived etc, how was he able to recount the "Sammy Jankis" wife-insulin-suicide scenario (which Teddy alleged was in fact Leonard's wife, whom he had killed with the insulin thanks to his disease)??
2. To further that point, how come he couldn't remember the fact that his wife was diabetic despite the fact that all his memories prior to the incedent were intact?
3. If Sammy Jankis didn't have a wife, why did he remember her in his pre-trauma memories?
4. Dodd was...someone associated with the drug dealer (Natalies bf)??
