An Introduction To The Motion Picture “Memento”
If you are reading into this article, than you are likely looking to learn a little more about one of the greatest films to be released in the year 2000, “Memento”. This film has several different reasons for being as good as it was, and many of these will be discussed within this article, along with a detailed plot synopsis.
While there might be several different things to consider and understand when it comes to a film like this, the best way that you can understand the film is through learning about the important events of the plot. The trouble with this is, the plot is not in chronological order, as most movies would be and therefore this becomes a little bit tricky when you go to detail the events of the film.
Unless of course, you do so in what chronological order you yourself can pull from the film. In its pieces and parts, the film could be in a very logical order, when you rearrange the parts. There is a very good reason for the film to be out of whack like this, not just for the confusion of the audience. It is actually the whole essence of the film, just having the movie go in a non-sequential order like this.
The reason, is that the main character of the piece, Leonard Shelby, suffers from anterograde amnesia. This is a condition that allows you to keep all the memories that you have up until the time you get it, but you cannot create new memories from then after. He got the condition from receiving a blow to the head when he attempted to stop two men from raping and killing his wife. He managed to kill one of the two, while the other clubbed him in the head. This blow caused the amnesia.
Throughout the film, several different people are noted to be taking advantage of Leonard and his fragile condition. This can be anything from getting him to rent another room in a motel, or to do someone’s dirty work on account that the individual is said to have had something to do with his wife. Any information he deems invaluable to tracking down the other killer, he tattoos to his body.
It isn’t long into the story that Lenny gets a call from a guy claiming to be a police officer (later to call himself Teddy) who has information about the whereabouts of the second killer. Lenny believes him and soon he is in route to meet this Jimmy, a slummy drug dealer. Turns out, after Lenny kills him, we learn that he had nothing to do with Lenny’s wife’s murder.
Others are introduced into the story, and more important facts are brought into play. Through the course of the film you presumably learn the identity of the second killer and get a front row seat to watch Leonard exact his revenge. This film is over run with quality performances that made the production powerful. Performances like that of Guy Pearce who played Leonard Shelby and Joe Pantaliano who played Teddy Gammel.
If you aren’t careful, “Memento” could lose you to its sporadic jumping back and forth in how the story progresses. But if you are paying attention, you are likely to see one of the best films to have been released in all of 2000, and likely one of the best of the whole ’00s.
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