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Title: Memento Film Review
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Essentially a story of self-delusion, loss and the untrustworthiness of memory, the real villain of the piece is stagnation, of the inability to move on, of constantly being stuck between two places; Lenny's desire for revenge is driven by the murder of his wife but also the theft of his identity, the sense of who he is and how he relates to the world around... Showed first 250 characters
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Essentially a story of self-delusion, loss and the untrustworthiness of memory, the real villain of the piece is stagnation, of the inability to move on, of constantly being stuck between two places; Lenny's desire for revenge is driven by the murder of his wife but also the theft of his identity, the sense of who he is and how he relates to the world around... Showed next 250 characters
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