A disconnection between cerebral and physical (ie mind and body Descartes – The Cartesian dilemma)
A lack of time and place
Creates a world built around uncertainties and half-truths = a virtual world. His world is based on everyone else’s truths or POV which end up contradicting each other.
A lack of knowledge and understanding
Lack of Metanarrative – the new postmodern world is structured and built upon complex and sometimes contradictory layers of organisations, instructions, ideas and individuals. Refers to how the narrative is constantly going backwards and forwards to explain how he got where he did or what has just happened. Yet as an audience we still struggle to piece it all together.
No rational explanation, for cause and effect. We don’t know if his wife really did have diabetes or if Leonard has already killed the murderer because he cant remember and he makes his own realities in the end.
A loss of faith in scientific, empirical evidence – not even his pictures and writing make it a reality as we learn it is only a snapshot of what really happened.
Emphasis on repetition = Simulation – a series of simulated events, sequences and characters
Lack of overall Truth or coherent meaning
Individual and community alienation Individualistic / isolated narrative
Results in individuals becoming isolated and vulnerable
So individuals on focus on (understand, can cope with, are knowledgeable about) surface and style. As opposed to substance, content, cohesion, meaning, truth.
Individual personal pleasure and gain is the only significant motivating factor
pastiche (re-makes of familiar genre, Film Noir, Thriller or Who dunnit?) re-make
hypperreality – it seems real, but unreal? exaggerated reality? an un-reality?
