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You need keys. We need to help Teddy to find his keys! :-) Joke aside, you should give attention to what Teddy says directly before the linked video. Teddy: "So you lie to yourself to be happy." and later: Teddy: "Yeah I guess I can only make you remember the things you want to be true. Like Jimmy down there." Leonard: "He's not the right ...

The effect of the order of sequences in the film is meant to display Leonard's inability to remember, showing what seems to be a mixed series of events out of order. It is also performed this way because it is a way for the viewer to sympathize and get involved with the story, trying to figure out what is going on as much as the main character is. It is ...

I don't remember of a car accident, and actually I don't think it fits with the plot. Lenard gets badly injured on the head during the burglary/rape (in his house), which causes his condition. This is actually important, because the last thing he remembers is this aggression (he says so himself), so it follows logically (to him) that his wife was killed ...

Leonard can not remember about his condition anytime. Even sometimes he forgets what he is doing right now. Remember the scenes when he is running because he is being chased or when he drinks the spitted beer. He just suddenly looses any clue why is he doing something in a time. After the accident, he said he can not store recent memories. But he can ...

I think you have the events correct. Leonard was an insurance investigator not an agent, so he was already something of a detective, and the Sam Jenkins case was a real case but the man was faking it and his wife didn't die. Leonard was able to kill his wife by administering her insulin shots. My wife is a type 1 diabetic (where you inject insulin) so I can ...

I am not sure, this is just a guess: The director might have decided to use this narrative structure in order to confuse the watcher. The main character suffers from a strange type of amnesia, that is why he can't remember the past. We, as watchers, are confronted with the same problem: we see the present, but have no idea of what events lead to this. I ...

If you notice carefully (I had to pause the DVD for this) - for a fraction of a second, there is a scene in which Sammy Jenkins is sitting in a chair and for just a fraction, he turns into Leonard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MUnDhxAif0 (see at 0:25) A more detailed explanation is here.

It was a trigger to condition the false memory. It's true he remembered Sammy, but every time he looked at the tattoo, he wasn't remembering the real story. Sammy was actually a fraud, but the story that Leonard's tattoo was conditioning him to believe was that Sammy was telling the truth and that he killed his wife, when in reality that was Leonard's own ...

When Leonard's wife was raped, nobody believed Leonard that there were two people involved. One that Leonard beat down, and a second one: "John G". Leonard: There had to be a second man. I was from behind, I remember. It's about the last thing I do remember. But the police didn't believe me. Teddy, the cop that was working the case of his ...

Teddy's only interest is profit. Outside of some self-serving dialogue from the untrustworthy Teddy himself, nothing in the movie suggests Teddy was ever acting out of kindness. Instead, the movie shows Teddy trick Leonard into killing Jimmy because Teddy had stolen from Jimmy -- which is definitely not a way to "help" Leonard. Teddy is not a nice person ...