“Memento” is a blockbuster movie Directed by Christopher Nolan. It is told backward, but the The opening scene in which Leonard, the protagonist, kills a corrupt cop named Teddy is the only scene that literally runs backward: In it, we see a Polaroid photo undevelop, a bullet fly back up the barrel of a gun and Teddy come back to life briefly after the sound of the shot. Straight away as an audience we can identify this movie as an action thriller because of the mise-en-scene of a rundown ware-house and blood, also iconography of a gun.
The next scene, which is in colour, is immediately followed by a black and white part in which we see Leonard, in an anonymous motel room, explaining a little about his circumstances in voice-over. The next extended scene, back to colour, finds Leonard meeting Teddy at his motel and then traveling to an abandoned building, where Leonard shoots Teddy again. This time it’s even more disturbing.
He cannot create new memories, but his wife’s death is always fresh to him; and so he is passionately determined to find the murderer and kill him. He reminds himself of what he’s doing through notes, a pocketful of Polaroid snapshots with helpful information written on them and for really important information, tattoos. We see that he’s developed a number of clues to the killer’s identity, each of these burned onto his body. The killer’s name is John or James and his last name begins with a “G.” He’s a drug dealer; Leonard even has the killer’s license-plate number. As the movie lurches backward, we see how and where he acquires each piece of the puzzle.
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