Body talk

Whilst watching the film memento the other day I realised how much of an interesting twist it gave on modern body morphication. In western society the vast majority of body morphication is for either aesthetic or religious reasons. People have nose jobs because they don’t like their appearance, they have their children circumcised for the religion that they practice.
We do not follow the ways of tribesmen, using scarification to carve or origins into our face, and gone are the days of the Russian mafia, tattooing their life stories on themselves. We don’t tend to use our bodies as such literal carriers of messages, so i though it was quite interesting to come across a film where a man’s entire reason for being could be read on his skin.