Like the backwards Seinfeld... but a thriller

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2001)

Working backwards through the life of Lenny is like starting from the center of an onion and putting the layers back on. Most "thriller" type of movies tend to neglect good dialogue, but in this movie it is very sharp and insightful. There is also very well placed comic relief.
I majored Biology in college and I am very rarely satisfied with the lengths that science is stretched in movies. Having learned about this condition in one of my classes, I was familiar with all of the aspects of it. They defined Lenny's condition very accurately and creatively. Anterograde amnesia is a real condition... for those wondering, and it does deal with damage to the hippocampus... the part of the brain involved in transforming short-term to memory into long-term memory. Blah, Blah, enough with the biology lesson...
The movie is great and one of the most thought provoking films released in a very long time... it WILL make you THINK... be prepared.