Memento

The movie is about a man who has trouble to remember any recent memory, Leonard. His wife was killed by two men at first. Then, he wants to revenge. By his friend Teddy's help, he finds the killer and kills him, but he does not remember it. Then, Teddy and Natalie (a girlfriend of a man who is killed by Leonard) exploit Leonard to kill a lot of people that they want to kill. In order to remember some important information, Leonard keeps them by tattoos and Polaroid photograph. However, he changes or destroys some of them and makes himself confused. Finally, he kills Teddy and believes his revenge is over, but in fact, his wife was killed by him because of too much insulin.

The director, Christopher Nolan, uses two different sequences of scenes (one is black and white, and one is color) to create two time lines, and he also arranges them in random (or maybe a very) order. That totally made me confused at first, and I have to watch it again. I think Christopher Nolan arranges the scenes in this unique way because he wants to create the scene of anterograde amnesia (Leonard’s disease). As what Leonard says in the movie, “Memory is unreliable.” Our viewers are also deceived by our own memory and get lost in our memory’s labyrinth.