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Memento is a neo-noir/psychological thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on his brother Jonathan's short story "Memento Mori." It stars Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano. The film was released in 2000 to widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for Academy Awards for Original Screenplay and Editing, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (410x607, 49 KB) Summary The poster for the film, Memento. ...
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Overview
The film consists of a reverse chronological, intricately woven pattern of flashbacks, with the beginning of one scene acting as the ending point for the next (the film's first scene moves from Y to Z, the next from X to Y, and so forth). Interspersed throughout these scenes are black-and-white sequences which progress forward normally (A to B, B to C, etc.). Thus the opening (color) scene of the film is the last chronological event in the story, and is shown in reverse motion to clue viewers into the film's structure. Near the end of the film, the color and black-and-white scenes converge into one climactic event. Reverse chronology is a method of story-telling whereby the plot is revealed in reverse order. ...
Memento follows Leonard (Guy Pearce), whose head trauma gave him anterograde amnesia, or "anterograde memory dysfunction". While able to remember everything up to the moment of trauma, Leonard is unable to form new memories. He is continually meeting people over and over again as if for the first time. To remember events and people, Leonard develops a system using Polaroid photographs, notes, and tattoos — especially clues to the identity of the man who he believes raped and murdered his wife, and who struck the blow that caused Leonard's condition when he stumbled in on the crime. Guy Pierce in a scene from Memento. ...
Anterograde amnesia is a form of amnesia, or memory loss, where new events are not transferred to long-term memory. ...
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The film explores themes of memory, identity, time, revenge and reality. Memory is the ability of the brain to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. ...
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The score was composed by David Julyan. David Julyan is a musician who composed the score to the film Memento. ...
Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Chronologically speaking, the story begins with Leonard in a motel room. He engages in a conversation on the phone with an unidentified other party, where he tells the story of Sammy Jankis. Leonard was an insurance investigator and one of his cases was of a man named Sammy Jankis, who suffered from anterograde amnesia. Leonard investigates Sammy's case and determines that Sammy's condition is not physical, rather it is psychological, and is therefore exempt from any insurance coverage. Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul and logos = word) is the study of mind, thought, and behaviour. ...
According to Leonard, Sammy's wife, a diabetic, believes that Sammy's condition is psychological and that he could snap out of it. She becomes more and more exasperated with his actions and decides on some drastic action. She repeatedly asks Sammy to administer her insulin shot, hoping either he will snap out of his condition or if not, she will basically commit assisted suicide. Sammy, unable to remember his actions after only a few minutes have passed, continues to inject his wife, happily assuming that it's "time for her shot" each time. His wife goes into a coma and dies from severe hypoglycemia, and Sammy is unable to understand what has happened to his wife, despairing as she collapses in his arms. This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ...
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According to Leonard's narrative over the phone, one night, a rapist breaks into Leonard's house, rapes his wife and then murders her. Leonard wakes up and gets into a fight with a masked man. He suffers a blow to the head and falls victim to anterograde amnesia, although it is never made clear whether his condition is also psychological or due to the blow to the head. Image File history File links Mementoscene. ...
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Soon after, Leonard encounters Teddy who was assigned to investigate the death of Leonard's wife. Leonard teams up with Teddy to find his wife's murderer: a man who was presumably named 'John G.'
An undisclosed amount of time passes and Teddy meets Leonard at the motel where he's staying. They drive to an abandoned warehouse where Leonard kills a man named Jimmy Grants thinking he is his wife's killer. He then takes Jimmy's clothing and later, his car. Through a dialogue with Teddy, Leonard realizes he has been manipulated into killing a man Teddy wanted dead. At a moment when Teddy seems to be the most deceptive, he reveals that Leonard is the real killer of his wife, via an insulin overdose. By Teddy's account, Sammy was actually a faker who had no wife. He revelas that Leonard's wife survived the rape, that it was she who needed the insulin shots, and that Leonard accidentally overdosed her. Leonard killed the real second attacker over a year ago. It transpires that Teddy initially felt pity for Leonard, and allowed him to get his 'revenge' on the second man he (Teddy) believes raped his wife. Due to the content of the narrative, it is debatable whether this person really was the correct man. Ultimately, Teddy uses Leonard to kill again, though his motivation is unclear. He may have felt that Leonard was ready to try and make the memory "stick", he could have been motivated by a desire to rid the world of drug dealers, or he may have just wanted the money. It could have just been a combination of all those motivations.
This revelation highlights the crucial ambiguity of the movie: either Leonard has been lying to himself all this time, inventing Sammy Jankis and amnesia to avoid a horrible truth; or Teddy is lying, saying hurtful things as hurt friends sometimes do. Writer Christopher Nolan does not leave enough clues to make any definitive statement as to which is true. Nolan has claimed however that there is a truth and close viewing will reveal all, which is strong evidence that Teddy is telling the truth, since the viewers are only provided answers if Teddy is being truthful. If Teddy is lying we know nothing. Image File history File links Leonardandteddy. ...
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Before Leonard can forget what has just transpired, he writes "Don't believe his lies" on the Polaroid picture he had of Teddy; whether Teddy is lying or not, Leonard has decided not to listen. In doing this, Leonard sets himself up to eventually kill Teddy (his next note is to tattoo "John G"'s license plate number--Teddy's license plate number--on himself). Leonard concludes that all people deceive themselves, and that the only thing different is that he is, for the moment, aware of his self-deception. He pulls up to the tattoo parlor just as he forgets, reads the note, and goes inside to get his new tattoo. It is, at this point that the film actually ends.
Continuing, soon after (with the narrative now running backwards), Leonard is misdirected by a note from Jimmy Grants' girlfriend Natalie. He goes to the bar where she works and tells her about his memory condition. Once she realizes he isn't lying, she devises a plan to have Leonard kill a man named Dodd.
Leonard is tricked into chasing Dodd down, however, Dodd finds him first, believing that Leonard is Natalie's boyfriend, Jimmy Grants. Partway through the chase, Leonard forgets Dodd is trying to kill him and after being shot at (again) ends up running away to Dodd's motel room where he can later ambush him. Once Dodd returns, Leonard captures him and puts him in the closet bound and gagged. Soon he has forgotten why, and he panics. He calls Teddy over and they decide to put Dodd in a car, with which he apparently leaves town.
When Natalie hears that Dodd has been taken care of, she agrees to have a friend trace the license plate Leonard has tattooed on himself. Leonard realizes it is Teddy who owns the car. Teddy's real name is John Edward Gammel — John G. Leonard takes Teddy to the abandoned warehouse in which he killed Jimmy Grants a few days before and in the first scene of the movie, pulls a gun and kills Teddy. Leonard takes one final Polaroid ...
Characters
Leonard Shelby Leonard Shelby, the main character, is played by Guy Pearce. After his wife's rape and murder, he suffers from anterograde amnesia. He uses notes, photographs, and tattoos to substitute for his missing memory. He records clues about the murderer because he hopes to have the opportunity for revenge. However, as the plot transpires, Leonard has already had his 'revenge' with the correct individual responsible. He just cannot remember it! He even goes so far as to destroy this memory (picture of him doing the act, covered in blood) so as to never be able to remember it again. Is Leonard a man in the grip of an unhappy past and a neurological condition, or a man in the grip of constant denial? In the end, only the audience can decide. It is also important to keep in mind that any action that happens before the initial scene in the motel room, the investigation of Sammy Jankis and the attack and rape are known to the movie-goer through Leonard's accounts only. Leonard is a classic example of an unreliable narrator. Anterograde amnesia is a form of amnesia, or memory loss, where new events are not transferred to long-term memory. ...
In literature and film, an unreliable narrator (a term coined by Wayne C. Booth in his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction [1]) is a literary device in which the credibility of the narrator, either first-person or third-person, is seriously compromised. ...
Teddy Teddy's character is played by Joe Pantoliano. Throughout the film, Teddy's actions throw his credibility into question. Although Teddy acts as if he is Leonard's friend, he uses Leonard's handicap to his advantage. He never tries to hurt Leonard physically, but he plays many psychological games in order to manipulate him. Ultimately, Teddy is innocent of Leonard's wife's rape; indeed, by his account he initially helped Leonard track down the correct individual responsible. Leonard later decides to burn this memory Polaroid. Joe Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an Italian-American actor. ...
Natalie Natalie is played by Carrie-Anne Moss. She befriends Leonard, and manipulates him into getting rid of Dodd, a man to whom she owes a lot of money. Her relationship with Leonard, however, is probably the most complex one in the movie. After Leonard helps her by getting rid of Dodd, however, Natalie tries to help him find the man he thinks killed his wife. It is here that the film plays a trick with the audience: just as Leonard cannot remember recent events but can remember things long past, we the audience tend to remember Natalie at her vicious and manipulative worst (since these scenes show up late in the movie, but earlier in the chronological order of her relationship with Leonard) but our memory of her at her sympathetic and helpful best fades away. Image File history File links Nataliememento. ...
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Sammy Jankis Sammy is played by Stephen Tobolowsky. Before Leonard's accident, Sammy was one of the clients of the insurance company Leonard worked for, and he was suffering from anterograde amnesia. Leonard's (possibly mistaken) conclusions about Sammy's condition lead to Sammy losing his insurance. Sammy's condition, and his wife's refusal to believe in it, bring about her death. Teddy's testimony at the end of the film bring into question the validity of Leonard's memory regarding the death of Sammy's wife or indeed, whether Sammy had a wife or amnesia at all. Stephen Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951 in Dallas, Texas) is an American actor. ...
Sammy Jankis is an actual character, but Leonard doesn't realize that when he is talking about Sammy Jankis, he is actually projecting his own history onto Sammy. In a clip where Sammy is sitting in the Psychiatric Ward, a man walks in front of him, and once he has passed, you see Leonard sitting there instead, just for a brief second.
Mrs. Jankis Mrs. Jankis, Sammy Jankis' wife, is played by Harriet Sansom Harris. She dies of an overdose of insulin after she manipulates her husband into repeatedly administering her insulin shot. She chose to do this either out of some hope of getting her husband to recover or stop faking his condition, or because she was unwilling to live without the old version of her husband. However, Teddy reveals, apparently truthfully, that Sammy Jankis didn't really have a wife, in which case all of Leonard's memories of Mrs. Jankis are actually memories of his own wife. The movie never explicitly clarifies which is the reality. Harriet Sansom Harris (January 8, 1955-), is an actress born in Fort Worth, Texas. ...
Burt Burt is played by Mark Boone Junior. He is a clerk at the motel where Leonard stays for part of the movie. Like Teddy and Natalie, he takes advantage of Leonard's condition for his own gain. He rents out multiple rooms to Leonard (who pays Burt multiple times) since Leonard can't remember which room he is staying in. Mark Boone, jr. ...
Dodd Callum Keith Rennie plays Dodd. Natalie manipulates Leonard into tracking down Dodd. She accomplishes this by convincing Leonard that Dodd had beaten her. While Leonard is driving around in Jimmy's car, Dodd recognizes it and a chase results. Leonard eludes him and plans an ambush, which results in Dodd being forced to leave town under the threat of his own gun. Callum Keith Rennie Callum Keith Rennie (born September 14, 1960 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England) is a Scottish-Canadian television and film actor. ...
Jimmy Jimmy is Natalie's drug dealing boyfriend, played by Larry Holden. Leonard is manipulated by Teddy into killing Jimmy near the chronological middle of the film. It is the photograph of Jimmy's dead body which transitions from the first half of the scenes (the black and white scenes, which move forward) to the second half of the scenes (the color scenes, which are placed in reverse scene order).
Catherine Shelby Catherine Shelby is Leonard's wife, though her name is never spoken onscreen. She is played by Jorja Fox. Her role in Memento is minimal, but integral to the story and critically well received. Jorja Fox Jorja-An Fox (born July 7, 1968 in New York, New York) is an American actress. ...
Critical responses In his review of the film, long-time film critic Roger Ebert mentioned that there is one key plot-point that he does not understand; if the last thing that Leonard remembers is his wife’s death, then how does he remember that he has short-term memory loss? [1] After watching the film twice, Ebert came to the conclusion that we are intended to be left in a state of confusion. Ebert gave the film three out of four stars. [2] Roger Ebert (right) with Russ Meyer, 1970. ...
This particular dilemma is not too hard to answer. First, Leonard can learn of his situation through the process of conditioning, which basically means learning by repetition. He has the tattoo saying "Remember Sammy Jankis" which would serve as a reminder for him to recollect a similar case he was involved in before the incident. Hoax or no hoax, Sammy helped Leonard 'remember' his condition.
William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes that Memento is a "delicious one-time treat". Arnold enjoyed how the film constantly makes the viewer re-examine the situation and strain to make mental links between the different scenes. Arnold also observed that Leonard's memory loss and tattoos could be a metaphor for the increasing number of passwords and number codes we are now expected to remember. [3]
TV Guide's reviewer writes that Leonard is as much of a mystery to himself as he is to the audience. Whether the audience is willing to surrender to its fragmented, repetitive rhythms will determine whether they will find Christopher Nolan’s philosophical puzzle film enthralling or infuriating. TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ...
A.O. Scott of The New York Times liked Memento's noir feel and disorienting reverse chronology, calling it an "existential crossword puzzle". Scott writes that Nolan folds "straightforward events and simple motives into Möbius strips of paradox and indeterminacy". [4] A.O. Scott writes film reviews for The New York Times. ...
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As of 2006, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) ranks Memento at number twenty-four in its list of the top 250 films of all time. IMDb's rankings are based on ratings by select Internet users. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Trivia - Memento took twenty-five days to shoot. [5]
- Teddy's phone number is the same as Marla Singer’s in Fight Club, 555-0134. [6]
- The tattoo parlor is named after Christopher Nolan's wife and the film's associate producer, Emma Thomas. [7]
- A white Honda Civic can be seen parked next to Leonard Shelby's Jaguar at the motel; this is writer-director Christopher Nolan’s car. [8]
- Natalie's handwriting on the coaster that Leonard finds in his pocket changes from what it is just before Leonard enters Ferdy's Bar to what it is at the Tattoo Parlor. [9]
- Memento was rejected by every major studio. As a result, Newmarket Films was left with no choice but to distribute the film themselves. It became a critical and box-office success.
- Disc two of the DVD Special Edition contains a hidden feature that allows the entire film to be viewed in chronological order, whereas the theatrical release (on disc one) has it in its original non-linear order. To view the hidden version of the film, start the faux psychological screening tests on disk two. On the questions involving four pictures of a woman changing a tire, order them backwards. On other versions of the 2-DVD-set, this feature was found on disc 1, by pressing cursor right twice and then enter at the start menu.
- In the scene where you see Sammy ending up in the clinic, if you watch very closely you can see a hint to the eventual revelation at the 'end' of the movie. Near the end of the scene, someone walks past Sammy between him and the camera. As the person passes, just before the end of the scene, there is a very brief glimpse, in just two frames of film, of Leonard sitting in the chair in place of Sammy. Additional special features in the DVD version reveal that Leonard was placed in psychiatric care and kept journals to remind himself of information to remember. In one of his journals, he encouraged himself to "escape" from the institution.
- Near the end of the film, when there is a shot of Leonard and his wife in the bed, you can see the wife looking at a tattoo on Leonard. The tattoo reads "I've done it" - hinting perhaps that his wife never died, or that he has accomplished his quest to "find her killer." Another possible interpretation is that the scene is a daydream: his quest fulfilled and his wife alive. It is apparent that it is not a memory, since he does not now have the tattoo and we have clearly been shown that he has no scarring or any indication that the tattoo was removed. It also can not be the "future" since a future scene would be shown before the first scene in the movie.
- This film is sometimes used as a teaching tool in high school and college psychology classes.[citation needed]
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Awards
Won - AFI Awards: AFI Screenwriter of the Year (Christopher Nolan)
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film
- Boston Society of Film Critics: Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan)
- Bram Stoker Awards: Screenplay (Christopher and Jonathan Nolan)
- British Independent Film Awards: Best Foreign Independent Film - English Language
- Broadcast Film Critics Association: Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan)
- Casting Society of America: Best Casting for Feature Film, Independent (John Papsidera)
- Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan)
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association: Russell Smith Award (Christopher Nolan)
- Deauville Film Festival: CinéLive Award (Christopher Nolan), Critics Award (Christopher Nolan), Jury Special Prize (Christopher Nolan)
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Best Motion Picture (Christopher Nolan)
- Florida Film Critics Circle: Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan)
- Golden Trailer Awards: Best Drama, Most Original
- Independent Spirit Awards: Best Feature (Jennifer and Suzanne Todd), Best Supporting Female (Carrie-Anne Moss), Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan)
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society: Best Picture, Best Actor (Guy Pearce), Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan), Best Editing (Dody Dorn)
- London Film Critics Circle: British Screenwriter of the Year (Christopher Nolan)
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan)
- MTV Movie Awards: Best New Filmmaker (Christopher Nolan)
- Online Film Critics Society: Best Picture, Best Breakthrough Filmmaker (Christopher Nolan), Best Screenplay - Adapted (Christopher Nolan)
- Phoenix Film Critics Society: Best Film Editing (Dody Dorn)
- San Diego Film Critics Society: Best Actor (Guy Pearce)
- Southeastern Film Critics Association: Best Picture, Best Screenplay - Original (Christopher Nolan)
- Sundance Film Festival: Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (Christopher and Jonathan Nolan [story])
- Toronto Film Critics Association: Best Picture, Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan)
- Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Best Film
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Nominations - AFI Awards: AFI Movie of the Year, AFI Editor of the Year (Dody Dorn)
- Academy Awards:
- Best Original Screenplay (Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan)
- Best Editing (Dody Dorn)
- American Cinema Editors: Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic (Dody Dorn)
- American Screenwriters Association: Discover Screenwriting Award (Christopher Nolan)
- Golden Globe Awards:
- Best Screenplay (Christopher Nolan)
- Independent Spirit Awards: Best Cinematography (Wally Pfister)
- London Film Critics Circle: Film of the Year, British Director of the Year (Christopher Nolan)
- Online Film Critics Society: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Guy Pearce), Best Director (Christopher Nolan)
- Phoenix Film Critics Society: Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Guy Pearce), Best Director (Christopher Nolan) Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Guy Pearce), Best Screenplay - Original (Christopher Nolan)
- Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic (Christopher Nolan)
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Other films involving memory pathologies - The movie 50 First Dates revolves around a woman with a short-term memory, who must continuously re-acquaint herself with her boyfriend.
- The movie Finding Nemo contains a character named Dory who also has short-term memory loss, although whenever she's around the clownfish Marlin, it improves substantially.
- The play Fuddy Meers tells the story of a woman who must re-learn virtually her entire life on a daily basis.
- Clean Slate (1994) is a comedy starring Dana Carvey as a detective who must solve a case while suffering from daily amnesia.
- Unknown White Male directed by Rupert Murray is a documentary about Doug Bruce, a man with retrograde amnesia.
- Anniyan a Indian Tamil Movie directed by S.Shankar is about how an innocent lawyer Ambi aka Ramanujam is affected by Multiple Personality Disorder and changes into two other personalities Anniyan and Remo. The movie stars Sadha, Vikram, Prakash Raj and Vivek.
- Ghajini a Indian Tamil movie directed by A.R.Murugadoss about a mobile company owner who suffers from Short Term Memory Loss and can`t remember a thing after 15 minutes trying to take revenge on the person who killed his lover. Stars Indian actors Asin, Nayanthara, Surya.
- The Man with the 7 Second Memory
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