Memento (film)

Memento is a American neo-noir psychological thriller and from 2000 directed by Christopher Nolan. It was his second feature film, after Following. Memento got ravereviews and was a minor hit in cinemas. The film was nominated for both the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Screenplay.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) suffers from anterograde amnesia after he at a burglary at his home, where his wife has been killed, a blow to his head has had. He can still remember everything until that day, but can create new memories since then no more. Yet he is determined to find the murderer of his wife and helps himself to tattooing on his body by the essential facts, such as that the killer one "John G" is.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Themes
 * 4 Prices
 * 5 external links

The film consists of two chronologies, one in color and one in black and white. The color scenes are special because they are shown in reverse order. This allows the Viewer to empathize with the life of Shelby, for he also do not know what has happened there before. At the beginning of the film we see how Leonard the suspected offender (in color), police officer Teddy (Joe Pantoliano), killed in an abandoned bunker. The story line goes still further back, in which leading up to this revenge murder can be seen, as well as the other relationships that Leonard has built up despite its condition, including those with Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss).

The color scenes are interspersed with black-witscènes which had been chronologically. Leonard is dressed differently than in the color scenes, and talk in a motel room on the phone with an unknown caller. Often tells Leonard about Sammy Jenkis (Stephen Tobolowsky), a patient with a similar condition, which Leonard in his previous life examined as insurance agent. Because Leonard didn't trust him to many Sammy subjugated tests to see if he was a scammer or not. Because people with anterograde amnesia can conditioning to certain acts (as Sammy could give his wife called insulin shots for her diabetes), certain Leonard that the insurance claim was invalid, since Sammy was insured for physical injuries but his condition as was proven psychic. Sammy's unhappy wife decided to once again test her husband several times by him right behind each other to give her prick her diabetes: If Sammy really a cheat was he would never do this, if he was not acceptable then this was her only way out.

The color scenes and black-witscènes eventually come together. Teddy (real name John Gammell), already a while with Leonard to turns out to go, persuades him on in his motel after Leonard has indicated the killer to have found. They drive to a remote bunker after which one arrives moments later, Jimmy Grants thinking it was a drug deal goes. Leonard knocks him down, and then brings him to life by suffocation, but then comes to the discovery that he is manipulated by Teddy to kill Jimmy. Leonard is here first upset about on Teddy, but who claims that Leonard lies unto itself aware for ages about the offender to deal themselves, simply because he will not be able to remember the taste of revenge.

Leonard leaves the bunker, irritated writes Teddy's license plate on (he is, after all, also a "John G"), and drive away in Jimmy's clothes and car. He stops at a tattoo shop in order to put the badge on his body.

The story structure. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Themes<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although revenge the motive appears for the character Lenny, the film mainly about memory, forget, (self) deception and confidence. Most of the characters with whom Leonard to deal, how helpful they also seem like compassionate they behave in one way or another, make abuse of Leonard. Teddy Gammell as ' Officer ' helps to find the killer, but it appears in reality to have criminals extorted (and perhaps worse) with Leonard as "instrument". Natalie, that Leonard initially everything except trust because they are in the car and clothes of her boyfriend (Jimmy Grantz) drives, use Leonard to Dodd to learn a lesson. And motel receptionist Burt (Mark Boone Junior) let Leonard, at the urging of his boss, rent two motel rooms, since Lenny will not know it anyway.
 * Guy Pearce -Leonard Shelby/Lenny
 * Carrie-Anne Moss -Natalie
 * Joe Pantoliano -Teddy/John Gammell
 * Mark Boone Junior – Burt
 * Jorja Fox -Catherine Shelby
 * Stephen Tobolowsky -Sammy
 * Harriet Sansom Harris -Mrs. Jankis
 * Sammy Thomas Lennon -doctor who examines
 * Callum Keith Rennie -Dodd

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">But Leonard himself also seems to cheat, by deliberately incorrect information about themselves to give the identity of the offender. Drag the police report so he constantly by the murder of his wife, but for unclear reasons there are pages from gone and words crossed out. As Leonard realizes this is at the end of the film, is his excuse that "anyone is lying to themselves to become happier", in his case with fatal consequences for some "John G 's".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The choice of the filmmakers in order to present the scenes in reverse order means that the Viewer, like Leonard, never knows what's going on that scene came before it. Thus, the visually claustrophobic aspect of anterograde amnesia. Further is becoming more clear that Leonard and his voice over an unreliable narrator are. Because he can create any new memories since the accident should actually all he talks about the period to be taken since then in doubt. This is painfully obvious if it turns out that Leonards wife was the one with diabetes, and he himself right was the one who had to give her insulin shots. The suggestion aroused that his wife survived the accident but does not like Mrs stepping aside at an existence with the failed Jankis Lenny. However, this should have happened after the accident, so it is questionable what memory of Leonard is correct: those of Sammy Jankis as a patient or his own, projected onto Sammy. ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="356" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film fell in 2002 also popular with many American reviewers-organizations, as well as at the MTV Movie Awards, where Director Nolan was voted "Best New filmmaker".
 * Academy Awards 2002
 * Best original screenplay (nominated)
 * Best editing (nominated)
 * 2002 Golden Globes
 * Best screenplay (nominated)
 * Independent Spirit Awards 2002
 * Best Film (won)
 * Best Director (won)
 * Best screenplay (won)
 * Best supporting actress-Carrie Anne Moss (won)
 * Best cinematography (nominated)
 * Sundance Film Festival 2001
 * Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (won)
 * Jury Award drama (nominated)