You can repeat the suspense of the story and hide a lot of facts from the audience, but things will still become a little bit clearer, and the audience will often understand it in half of the time. But "Fragments of Memories" completely subverted the traditional storytelling mode-he did not speak directly or backwards, nor was it a random collage or the circular structure of the so-called "Pulp Fiction." The incident is edited into dozens of fragments (this can also be called the so-called "memory fragments"), and the first half is narrated and the second half is flashed back very cunningly, making us dazzled and puzzled. In the narratives of these two directions, we could not find the connection between them at the beginning, and felt completely separated, each saying different things. But as the plot unfolds, we can get some vague connections, but they are also full of contradictions, which makes people suspicious. We didn't realize it until the black and white changed to color at the end of the film, and the two directions met at one point.
The most important thing about this movie is that the protagonist of the story—that is, our perspective—he is a patient with amnesia and can't remember anything. If amnesia is described in the traditional narrative, because the audience has no amnesia, he is very clear about the reasons and consequences of what happened to this person, and all the ins and outs, so it is absolutely impossible to convey the feeling of amnesia to the audience. In the story of "Fragments of Memory" that is completely flashback, the world is turned upside down. In the separated time-space, we can only see the event in this time-space, without knowing why it happened. That is, we always only see the result, but don't know the reason. Even if we clarified the ins and outs for a period of time later, because there was no previous cause, we still didn't know what was going on, and the inferences that began to form were overturned again and again. Thinking is like the flashback thread released by the director, hanging upside down and pulling up, I don't know when it will reach the top. This kind of suspense is absolutely unmatched by any existing narrative method.
The reason why we are so obsessed with the suspense created by "Shards of Memory" may be because human nature likes to pursue it. The direction of the arrow of time cannot be changed. Although the direction of human life is along the positive direction of time, human beings are not satisfied with the existing results. They always have to go back and construct a reverse time axis. As "The Matrix" emphasizes, the chain of cause and effect is tightly intertwined, and everything in the world is purely inevitable. However, one cause leads to intricate results, and the causes of one result are so many that they are too complicated to understand. Small changes in the initial conditions are enough to cause earth-shaking changes (here we can refer to the "Butterfly Effect"). It is difficult for us to see the logical connection between causal links that are separated by several causal chains. This is When we first started watching "Fragments of Memory", our impressions of both the frontal and flashback directions.
In addition, one of the thought-provoking aspects of this movie is that it makes us have serious doubts about the reliability of memory, not only the collective memory of human society, but also our own individual memories. We see that the protagonist of amnesia can not remember anything. He has to take photos, notes and tattoos to record some important things. He thinks this is foolproof, and his previous memories, which he thinks are clear and unmistakable, but because of the fallacy of these records and memories, he has been exploited time and time again, falling into contradictory mysteries time and time again. At the end of the film, although we "if we have realized something", who can really tell the truth? Teddy deceived Lenny to kill Jimmy, Jimmy's girlfriend Natalie deceived Lenny to kill Teddy, and Teddy's series of puzzling words pointed to Lenny's memory mistakes. So, whose words should we trust? Is Lenny's previous memory credible? We can't be sure of these, so there will be n possibilities in the whole "truth". Our history is like the photos and records in Lenny’s hands. We didn’t write it down when we knew the facts completely. He is a liar. From then on, Lenny will not have the truth. Killing the wrong person is irreversible. Lenny’s revenge is a complete failure), even like Lenny burned the two photos, artificially modified and deleted some records, Later generations regarded them as true history. In fact, true history cannot be ascertained. This is the main argument of postmodern historiography. At that time, some distorted facts were written down, and that truth no longer exists for us. This is really cruel truth.
Further extending along this line of thought, although we think we are not amnesiacs, we all know that we have misremembered things. When I was in middle school, once when I was in the middle of middle school, I felt that I remembered something very clearly. The family believed that it did not happen, and was quite frightened at the time. If the memory is really so unreliable, then our understanding of the whole world, including the space behind you now (yes, it is now), may be a vain... …
Forget it, besides making people scared, what's the meaning of that kind of suspicion. When I read a sentence from Wittgenstein in "On the Certainty", I was haunted by skepticism: "Some propositions cannot be doubted. It seems that these questions and doubts are the pivots on which they turn. "Let’s give a truth to this movie: at 1:29:55 of the movie (or maybe your version is different, mine was at 1:26), the director gave us a short opportunity to observe from the third-person perspective. , Was able to see the scales of claws behind this layer of mist. You can see that Sammy, a patient with amnesia who killed his wife by overdose of insulin, walked in front of him. After the person passed, Sammy became Lenny. The two words Sammy and Lenny are really similar. According to Teddy's last sentence, We can infer that Sammy killed his wife by overdose of insulin after amnesia. In fact, it happened between Lenny and his wife. Lenny's wife did not die in that rape, but Lenny lost her memory. Lenny's wife tried her best to save Lenny. In the end Experimenting with himself tried to recall Lenny's memory, and he died because of it. Lenny couldn't accept this fact, he deleted the case file, and imagined Sammy's story, and then based on his last memory-his wife was raped, looking for another murderer to avenge. Before Jimmy died, Sammy and Teddy called out "That's your previous name" before they died, and it is even possible that Sammy is Lenny's previous name.
Okay, let's put the memory fragments together. At this time, I thought of "The Matrix" and mentioned Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Although the first-person narrative of the film is so logical, it cannot be justified. It must be added with a little external hint? Is that so
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