Things are not what they seem

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2005)

I am baffled by how many of you are trying to analyze and dissect the "plot" of this movie i.e. "nobody could live with this kind of a disorder", "Leonard Shelby is not convincing...he should be grief stricken if he can remember his wife's death", "why does he remember some things in the movie and not others?" My interpretation of this is plain and simple. He IS the killer with a sociopathic personality. He feels nothing. He has convinced himself he did NOT do it. He is seeking the "real killer" (like O.J. looking for Nicole's killer on the golf course.) All throughout this movie, we have sympathy for Leonard Shelby because we are basically seeing things through his eyes (as disjointed as they may be). Then strange "unexplainable" things happen that make one question what is really going on. Why can Leonard remember some things and not others etc.? Why is he not acting like a grief stricken man? We, as viewers, are conditioned not to believe these little tidbits of evidence as reality as they are introduced to us because we have already formed this bond with Leonard and his mission. But truth be told, I had cold chills up my spine in the end when it dawns on me that Leonard's memory may very well be selective and pathological and not a true, memory disorder. Now where was I? One of the best last lines I can recall in recent memory. (Smiles)