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review about reviews Thriller with a Brain Lenny is a man who
can no longer create memories. He knows who he is and where he
comes from, but not how he got where he is right now or why he's
there. Every time he meets someone, he meets them for the first
time and he only has the look in their eyes to guess what they
know about him, what their relationship with him might be and
what their motivations could be. The last thing he can remember
is his wife dying and he wants revenge for the killer.  How can
he kill a person without memory? He doesn't need memory, after
all the police don't use memory, they use evidence, he reasons.
So he writes himself notes and tattoos his body in ways which
will remind him where his car is, how he should trust this
person, what does he know about the killer.  And because the
film is shot backwards (the scenes play forwards but each scene
begins where the scene that comes after it ends), the audience
is in the same s