Momento

Memento is very mind twisting film dramatize with epistemology. The main character Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) seeks vengeance for the rape and murder of his beloved wife. Heis guided by the only memories he retains up to the time of the murder since he suffered from a brain injury. The trauma left him incapable of generating new memories and asa result he relies on polaroids photos, tattoos with brief explanation to get him by the constantly series of awaking. The challenge of categorizing the film as an example ofa priory or a posteriori because as someone once said “what lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Reason is the primaryor most reliable route to certain knowledge about reality a rationalist like Descartes would say.
Descartes “rationalism that is, the position that we know reality by meansof reason and not by means of sense experience” In his literature selection Mediation “Descartes examines the nature of his being and the nature of knowledge by arguing thathe is a thinking thing.” This is seeing as Leonard “Meditation I in a state of extreme uncertainty.”


This is the hard body that has just emerged from pure nothingnessinto a world where it must now do something. But before the body (Leonard Shelby) determines what it is going to do in the world, for a brief moment it is just existing. Atthis point, the body can only say, "I am here." "I am here," wildly running away from someone (or am I running to them?); or "I am here," lying in bed with a strange woman; or"I am here" on a toilet seat with a bottle of whisky in hand. These are preconscious moments, the body before deliberate action, before knowledge, before understanding.