Leonard existing outside the stream of time in Memento

Memento is a film about a man with short term memory loss. He is searching for the man that killed his wife. But he doesn't have the ability to form new memories. So he is constantly writing things to remind himself of things and help him hold himself together. At one point Natalie enrages Leonard (the main character with memory loss) to the point that he hits her. She gets in her car, closes the door, opens it again, and tells Leonard someone else hit her. This causes Leonard to nearly kill someone.

Scene where Natalie Fools him
Can You Get Angry?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ3Z0TSIpE0

Taylor's "Space and Time" mentions that an object can move from places and return to an original place relatively easily. It also says that the same thing could happen with time. As in that something can be in the same place at different times, something can be in different places at the same time. Like if an earthquake was covering a large area, and affected multiple places at the same time. This is important to the idea of Memento. Memento is about a man who travels through the world's places and times but has no concept of it. So that even though the man appears to be in different times he is really stuck in a single starting point to himself.

Since Groundhog Day was mentioned during free will I thought it drew an interesting parallel. Groundhog Day the character was the only person who realized that time was passing as the world around him reset. In Memento the world marches on as the main character is himself reset. So to Leonard, Leonard can move spatially but cannot move very far in time. His time exists only as far as his attention can carry him. But despite this limited movement he is trapped in time. It's like someone trapped in a cell. This jailed person may pace back and forth in their cell but can never actually leave the cell. And since the injury is physical, there isn't a good way to unlock it either.

The movie also raises the question of if Leonard can really do things long term with his life. Because as soon as he does anything it is usually soon gone. Even if he could achieve meaningful things he wouldn't remember them. The horror of this is apparent in Natalie fooling Leonard into killing someone. This means that though Leonard is affected by pure becoming, as Taylor has outlined, he cannot see it or respond to it. One must wonder if Leonard will ever even realize he is aging until he is dead or dying. One of the characters also claims that he brought justic to his wife's murderer. Despite this Leonard does not remember even that (remembering that many characters lie so that may be untrue)

The movie does mention that a person can condition themselves to think things through repetition. So that might mean he is not completely stuck in that resetting point. From a philosophical standpoint, it really comes to one of an inability to form temporal connections. Taylor talks a lot of how the foundation of time is the relationship between the instance when different events occur. So as a person that cannot form a relationship between what is occurring now and what lead up to it Leonard is lost in time. Characters allude several times to the fact that viewer has no idea when Leonard's wife was actually killed. There is no real indication, especially since so many people give Leonard false information and mislead him. The past as Leonard knows it is only a foundation for his identity and things known through wrote memorization. So even though Leonard is privy to his own extreme version of "pure becoming," in a way he exists completely outside time.