Philosophically refreshing

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2001)

Major spoilers ahead, so honestly, don't read this if you haven't seen the movie.
First, I'd like to say that I truly appreciate modern movies with decently unexpected endings. Not forced 'surprise' endings, but movies that really turn out to not go in the direction in which you expected them to go.
Memento is a movie about personal motivation, the desirability of truth, and justice. It's conclusion was startling to me... that the first of that list of three significantly overrides the other two, at least for a man constantly in a prelusive state. The only way that Lenny could give his life any meaning at all, the only way he could preserve his life, is by ensuring that he constantly had an objective that he could systemically strive for. Thus he invented John G., and made his existence a pursuit of him.
Another interesting conclusion of this movie is that this man is constantly going around killing people, and even though he doesn't realize it, he is responsible for their deaths. He may not at every moment be aware that the man he is pursuing is innocent of that which he accuses him, yet at the point where he made that decision he was aware of it. He is, then, completely responsible, and should, if ever caught, spend the rest of his life living a three-minute jail sentence.