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Originally Posted by Niamh.

Great, I'll watch it over the weekend.

I watched Memento in chronological order as well

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It really does show how genius the original is though and just how much it puts you in Lenny's head rather than watching a straight forward movie about a guy with that condition.

I found I liked Natalie a bit more in this version, you could kind of understand a bit more why she was being an asshole to Lenny, clearly she knew he'd either killed or been an accessory to killing her boyfriend (even if he was a drug dealer) and she still did seem to feel sorry for Lenny even though she used him (but maybe she felt he owed her that revenge?

Also, the scene in the cafe with Natalie and she asks him to close his eyes and remember his wife, in some of those memories she looked stressed and upset and i wonder does that imply it was after the rape and therefore Teddy was telling the truth when he said Lenny had accidentally OD'd her? It's easier to notice that watching it chronologically because watching it backwards you don't know yet that she may have actually survived the attack.

I feel the conversation about her re reading that book had some significance as well or symbolism at least about repeating things.

So yeah watching it forwards made me end up with my original conclusion that Sammy did exist but that Lenny had somehow managed to train himself to believe that his own wife was Sammy's.

What I would like to know though is how they figured out that the killer was John G? Where did those names/initials come from?

Also, another observation, how quickly he believed Teddy about Jimmy being the one, he seemed to have just taken his word where as he was much more thorough when deciding Teddy was the one

Yes I watched the chronological version as well it was really interesting, almost like watching a different film...

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I found that it made you see all the other characters in a different light and how they all responded to Lennys condition more clearly
I think that Lenny was quick to believe Teddy because he wants vengeance quickly and it was easy to believe and then when that was finished he had to fabricate another whole story by himself to seek vengeance again

So..Defiance is the next film to watch i have never seen or heard of it before so I am looking forward to watching it..

I have also been watching Finding Alice on ITV player but I fear it's going to be one of those series where they make sure there are loose ends so you have to watch the next series... I prefer limited series like Russian Doll which is just brilliant ...