Memento film

For this blog I chose to write about Leonard stating “eyewitness testimony is worthless and memory can change the shape of a room..”. I agree with him because our minds can’t remember every single thing that we go through in great depth. For instance, I can relate to his saying how testimony can be worthless because its simple when you ask a person to explain something to you for the first time , by the second time you ask them majority of the time they will change their wording or even say something different. This happens all the time, we all do it and we dont realize it but after watching the film it had me thinking how we do it all the time. Yes its a bad thing as well because if your in a serious situation where your wording changes or you explain something different , it could effect your condition. Let’s take a jury trial as an example, it’s a serious situation where we have to be careful what we say and what we remember. Therefore, Leonard kept notes, especially when he wrote on the picture “kill him” to remind himself of who the person he’s hunting down.

According to Hume he says” identity is just a habit we have”. After seeing Leonards habits on how he takes notes and takes pictures of the people that come across him, Hume would see a difference from our conditions. For one, Hume says we can’t say “that was us in a picture” or “how would others know it was you” and I agree with this argument because Leonard does write notes behind his pictures he captures but as Hume stated how could we prove that everybody will know it was “you” . By Leonard doing this he is sticking to the idea or a (habit) of continuing this and not realizing when others see that same picture nobody would be able to prove that the guy on the picture did commit murder. (word count 332).