Memento contains several postmodern ideas. Mainly, it questions the definition of belief and truth. What is the definition of truth anyways? How about belief? The postmodern definition of ‘truth’ is very vague. It is relative and is very different from ‘fact’. It is very closely related to belief. When an idea or theory is strongly believed to be truth, then at some point it really becomes truth. In memento, the main character Leonard Shelby locks himself in his own simulacrum where truth only exists according to his belief. It is impossible to know the ‘actual truth’, because the movie is only shown in Leonard’s view. The main focus of this blog is to figure out ‘THE truth’ of Memento. In order to do that, I focused on three scenes that give clue about what to (or not to) believe as ‘THE truth’.
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