Thursday, May 19, 2011
Momento CD
I believe momento is a large story of Cognitive Dissonance. He has this motivation to kill John G at any stakes. He will rationalize his behavior over and over agian. He can forget about his wrong doings and then rationalize his behaviors again. For example he is not content in the end by killing jimmy. He is told the truth by teddy and rationalizes in his truck to forget about it. So he burns the pictures so he can start a new hunt over. Also is the story with his wife. He possibly makes up the story about how sammy jenkins killed his wife, while it was his in reality he just rationalized that to not remember and move on. So there will be no end to this movie if it kept going on. He would just keep rationalizing his behavior for killing other John G's.
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It's interesting how we think of psychology all the time now. Metamorphosis, now Momento. I thought of Cognitive Dissonance at the end of the movie too. Leonard can take it a bit farther, as he can totally forget that his thoughts were contradictory in the first place, but the dissonance is still there, only to the extreme.
ReplyDeleteCognitive dissonance could definitely play a part for Leonard. He is always rationalizing, but he also sort of needs to, to figure out what he is doing. You're probably right in that he quite possibly could have been trying to rationalize what he did to his wife by creating Sammy.
ReplyDeleteI think that the whole movie was actually about repression, not cognitive dissonance. He truly believes that the guy he is seeking has killed his wife. He totally forgot all of the other John Gs that he killed. Cognitive dissonance is motivation by rationalization. Can he rationalize his actions if he doesn't even remember what he did? He totally repressed all of the facts that would help him to understand that it was actually he who killed his wife. He repressed the idea that his wife was diabetic, that she lived through the assault, and the fact that Sammy Jankis was actually himself.The whole thing actually reminded me of Shutter Island, the way that the main character made up new people and forced his story on them and adopted a new identity. So repression, not cognitive dissonance.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kaylee. Especially because of his condition, I'm not sure that it could be cognitive dissonance. It makes sense that he would repress all of the bad memories that came before and create them into something that they weren't in order to live with himself.
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