Subject Ideas:

• Leonard’s notes, photos, and tattoos
• Halting State’s formal oddities
• Effects of video games on children
• Virtual realities
• Common aspects of virtual realities
• States of consciousness
• Getting a physical skill or knowledge through software
• Accelerated learning
• Virtual learning
• Virtual medical training (for battlefield use)
• Portrayal of memories in Memento
• Virtual realities and body image
• Social media and escapism
• How woman are portrayed in virtual realities
• How virtual realities impact the physical world
• The mindset behind cosmetic body modification
• The brain as a virtual reality
• The implications of its biological underpinnings
• Body image as a virtual reality+
• Memory loss as an alternate reality
• Cyber-warfare/hacktivism (electronic vigilante groups)
• Ofelia’s dreams/virtual world
• Crime in virtual realities
• Medical conditions as alternate realities
• The physical impact non-digital alternate realities
• Behavioral effects resulting from media

Possible Corresponding Arguments:

• Even though the movie doesn't explicitly address computers, there’s something in Leonard’s amnesia and bits of information that’s like the passwords I have to remember and pieces of identity I have in different places online.
• Leonard’s body is smarter than his mind, because his handwriting and repetition "know" things that he isn't consciously aware of.
• Leonard’s notes, photos, tattoos, maps, clothes, etc. get grouped together, but they actually work in different ways.