Anyways, in English class, we read a short story called "Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan then had to watch the film adaption by Christopher Nolan. Here's some info about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29
I had to answer the response questions, and here are a couple.
A. How does memory (or lack of memory) impact are culpability or responsibility for our actions?
B. How does the loss of memory change the way time affects us?
A. If
I do something wrong, I tend to relive that moment repeatedly. By
remembering what we do wrong, we are reliving the guilt and pain. We
are not allowing ourselves time to heal and move past our mistakes. The
more we relive the memory, the more it gets distorted. Additionally,
our emotions can manipulate the memories into casting more blame or
innocence on us. We deceive ourselves into thinking that we did
something worse than what actually happened or that someone else hurt us
more than he actually did.
B. We
use memories to create a timeline of our lives. We refer back to them
when something happens in the present, and that helps us move forward in
our lives. With those memories gone, we can get stuck in an endless
loop of the present, just as Earl did. We lose part of our identity
with those memories, so we also become no different from the people
around us.
Come to think of it, it does seem we're more likely to remember the bad things we've done--or embarrassing, or scary moments. (A lot of the memories I have from when I was four and younger were of scary moments like falling down the stairs.) In other words, negative things.
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