A Guide to the Films of Christopher Nolan. Photos Top cast Edit. Guy Pearce Leonard as Leonard. Carrie-Anne Moss Natalie as Natalie. Joe Pantoliano Teddy as Teddy. Mark Boone Junior Burt as Burt. Russ Fega Waiter as Waiter. Harriet Sansom Harris Mrs. Jankis as Mrs. Thomas Lennon Doctor as Doctor. Callum Keith Rennie Dodd as Dodd. Kimberly Campbell Blonde as Blonde. Marianne Muellerleile Tattooist as Tattooist. Larry Holden Jimmy as Jimmy. Christopher Nolan. More like this.
Watch options. Storyline Edit. Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time. Some memories are best forgotten. Rated R for violence, language and some drug content. Did you know Edit. The first couple of scenes of the regular cut of the movie appear normal in this version, meaning they are not reversed.
However, this version of the movie on Disc 2 is quite difficult to reach the user must answer several questions and solve a puzzle , and forward, reverse, and chapter skip capabilities are disabled. Goofs When Natalie shows Leonard the picture of herself with Jimmy, she is smiling in addition to Jimmy having a mustache. Later, when he gets out of bed and views it again, she is no longer smiling, and Jimmy's mustache is gone.
Finally, in the close-up of Leonard writing the note on the back of the Polaroid he took of her, the picture has reverted to its original state. This is probably deliberate to make us feel we have Leonard's condition. Alternate versions The Region 2 DVD contains the original movie, and the re-edited "Chronological" movie as a hidden extra within the special features menu.
Connections Edited into 5 Second Movies: Memento User reviews 2. Top review. But as the story unfolds, the reveal isn't the true culprit but to show that Leonard is chasing his own ghost. He has purposefully been creating a mystery he can never solve because he's already solved it, but forgotten that he already achieved his vengeance.
Instead, everyone he meets uses him including corrupt cop Teddy Joe Pantoliano , vindictive bartender Natalie Carrie-Anne Moss , and even Burt, the hotel desk clerk. Leonard clings to this shred of control he believes he has, but that control is an illusion.
He thinks that his Polaroids and tattoos are hard evidence, but their just as fallible as memory. In the end he learns before he forgets again that his wife survived the attack and that she committed suicide by having Leonard give her too much insulin.
The figure of Leonard Shelby—a man who believes he's in control only to learn that his control was an illusion—recurs in Nolan's filmography, but it works particularly well in Memento because of how Nolan is able to upend expectations of the noir genre.
Leonard is our detective, and while he suffers from a crippling ailment, he should still be able to solve the case, but the film slowly reveals that what Leonard's working towards isn't justice or even vengeance, but clinging to the scraps of an identity. He's conditioned himself not to solve the case, but rather to create a simulacrum of his old life as an insurance investigator another reason he can't stop talking about Sammy Jankis Stephen Tobolowsky.
Leonard has constructed an elaborate lie that allows him to live out the same fantasy and hold onto the identity that he can solve a mystery. Everyone lies to Leonard, most of all Leonard. What gives the story its potency is that Memento recognizes we all lie to ourselves. Nolan simply found a vehicle to make the lie one of the stars of the film.
Leonard's not lying to himself about his success or his ego. He's lying to himself about his very identity, and his brain damage allows him to perpetuate this mythology endlessly.
It's only when we recall the very first scene that we remember that Leonard has a new opportunity to break the cycle. Without Teddy around to use Leonard as a weapon and a new photo marking Teddy's demise, maybe Leonard will tell himself the truth.
Maybe that can break the cycle, but until we reach that resolution that comes at the very beginning , we have to get to the thematic truth of the film, which doesn't come until we understand why Leonard killed Teddy in the first place. Like all of us, Leonard is looking to feel like his actions have meaning.
Memento is a powerful story about the hold that identity has on us and how it even can transcend the loss of short-term memory. Leonard is convinced that he knows who he is, but it's not until the climax that Teddy tells him, "That's who you were.
Eerily, Memento gives a nod to the character that would make him a household name, with the a Batman logo appearing in a store window about halfway through the movie. It also popped up in his first film, Following.
So, did the director have incredible foresight to know where his career would go? In all likelihood, no. As for Memento , the window also features the Superman emblem, a Star Wars logo and some other fan-centric graphics, so it likely was a comic book store window. But it's a still a cool tidbit after the fact. In fact he purposefully strives for that kind of reaction. Explaining it to IndieWire :. The National Film Registry requires that a film be at least 10 years old before it can be nominated for preservation.
But despite that meaning 21st films were eligible as of , no narrative film was until Memento in Prior to that, only documentary films had been added to the Registry. Memento celebrates its official 20th anniversary on March Write it on a polaroid so you won't forget. Michael Balderston.
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