Memento
A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
- Director:Christopher Nolan
- Genre:Crime / Mystery / Thriller
- Runtime:113 minutes
Cast
Guy Pearce : Leonard
Carrie-Anne Moss: Natalie
Joe Pantoliano : Teddy Gammell
Mark Boone Junior: Burt
Russ Fega : Wait
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Memento is presented as two different sequences of scenes, a series in black-and-white that are shown chronologically, and a series of color scenes shown in reverse order. The two sequences “meet” at the end of the film, thus overall describing one common story.[1] During the opening credits of the film, the only sequence to be played backwards is shown. It starts with the developed Polaroid photograph of a man shot in the head. As the sequence plays backwards we are shown the photo undeveloping, entering the camera, being taken, etc. As the credits end, we see the protagonist shoot a man in the head.
The movie starts in black-and-white with the protagonist, Leonard Shelby in a motel room. Leonard has anterograde amnesia, impairing his ability to store memories of recent events. As Leonard explains in the film, his amnesia was a result of an attack by two men in his home. Leonard killed the attacker who strangled his wife, but a second attacker clubbed him in the head and escaped. The police did not believe there was a second attacker, but Leonard has come to believe the attacker is a white male known as “John G”. During the black-and-white sequences we learn about Leonard’s amnesia through the story Leonard tells an unnamed caller about the strange case of Sammy Jankis. Leonard explains how he met Sammy during his job as an insurance investigator. Sammy appeared to have anterograde amnesia after a car accident, but since Sammy could not learn through habit and routine, Leonard was able to convince his company that Sammy’s condition must be psychological and therefore not covered. Leonard explains how Sammy’s diabetic wife conducted her own experiment to try to test Sammy, repeatedly requesting her insulin injections hoping that Sammy would remember the previous injection, and died from the overdose. Read more
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