[ SECRET POST #3037 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3037 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Memento

[(Anonymous)]

He did kill his wife, and then erased all trace of that so he'd never happen across that information. That's what I remember, though that movie was really confusing and I could be totally wrong.

Re: Memento

[philstar22]

See what I got from the movie was that he'd already killed the person who'd killed his wife, not that he'd done it himself. But yes, the movie was super confusing.

Re: Memento

[(Anonymous)]

He'd killed the person who raped his wife, and then convinced himself that that man was also the person who killed her, but she'd actually survived that assault. He had killed her himself, I think because she was suffering emotionally/mentally.

I really need to rewatch that movie.

Re: Memento

[philstar22]

Okay, yes, I totally missed that. I'll have to watch it again too.

Re: Memento

[(Anonymous)]

I think part of what confused me when I watched it was that I could never figure out if the rape part of it was meant to have been something that actually happened, and it wasn't until I read more about it later and then rewatched it that I caught that.

Re: Memento

[othellia]

Yeah, I think the popular understanding is that the rape happened but she survived. What follows is the story he tells of Sammy Jankis. Shelby's wife is the one who was diabetic. And he was the one who accidentally killed her through overdose. And then because he couldn't accept that as reality/keeps forgetting anyway, he created his own mental reality in which his wife died in the attack thereby placing the guilt on the rapist/not him.

There's also a shot of Sammy Jankis sitting in a mental clinic at one point and when a doctor passes by, the character switches to the Shelby really briefly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MUnDhxAif0

Re: Memento

[philstar22]

So is this just a popular understanding, or has Nolan confirmed?

Re: Memento

[(Anonymous)]

Nolan confirmed in the commentary that the conversation between Teddy and Shelby that happens at the end of the film, in which Teddy reveals to Shelby that Sammy Jankis' story is Shelby's story and that Shelby has already killed his wife's rapist, is accurate.