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The movie Memento deals with memory and time. I will discuss this film and compare it to some of the readings we had for class. Memento is about a guy, Lenny, who loses his memory after the death of his wife and then hunts down the murderer so he can kill this person to avenge her death. The entire movie is based on the condition Lenny has of him only remembering things for a few minutes and then totally forgetting everything that happened unless he takes a Polaroid of the memory and writes some information down on the back of the photo. Lenny lives in the present and can’t trust anyone. He can’t even trust his own memory, which he finds out later on, after realizing that he create