Suffering Anterograde Amnesia In Memento

Through Nolan’s application of editing, such as flashbacks, in Memento, the story of Sammy Jankis can be linked back to Leonard’s past as well as the central theme of the fragility and unreliability of memory. Leonard’s unreliable memory is clearly conveyed as the sequence rhythmically displays scenes showing that the protagonist’s wife survived the assault, which is evident as she removes the shower curtain from her head in a flashback. This indicates the unreliability of Leonard’s memory and the devastating result of ‘Conditioning [himself] to remember, learning through repetition’. Nolan’s employment of flashbacks within the sequence expresses Leonards desperate attempt to escape guilt through the fragility of his memory. This is exemplified in the flashback when Leonard’s memory of pinching his wife adjusts to him injecting insulin into her. Nolan’s utilisation of editing illustrates the fragility and unreliability of Leonard’s memory, specifically when he learns that he

The book "The Assault" by Harry Mulisch is very centered around the main character Anton's struggle with memory. The relationship between his approach to memory and the effects of his approach proved to be the main conflict of the story. Being complicated, it is hard to decipher. During the beginning of the novel (post-tragedy) Anton is very much a shell of his memories. Many details of his character, from major life aspects such as his wife or his job, too small (seemingly) insignificant things such as what sorts of media he likes can all be traced back to his supposedly forgotten memories of the events surrounding his families tragedy.

In the film Memento, written by director Christopher Nolan, the main character Leonard Shelby, is a confused and damaged man that wants the revenge for the murder of his wife. We can say that Lenny lives in his own world uniquely different from everyone else. The reason for this is his inability to store short term memory and convert into long term memory. This disability renders Lenny’s life into a repeatable lifestyle and has to start from scratch about every 15 minutes. The only source he has is to go back to is his notes and tattoos he discovers every morning on his body. It seems as though he only has his past memories but the only memories we learn about in the movie is about Sammy Jenkins and the murder of his wife. I think that

Also, from the viewpoint of neuroscience, Leonard confabulates some of the stories on the day of the incident. He thought that his wife was killed by the assailant and wanted to take revenge all along; however, his wife was not dead at that time. It was Leonard himself who had killed his wife by giving her insulin shots more than

Trying to make ends meet, he turns to selling drugs. By the time Jimmy finds love ones more and decides to settle down tragedy occurs. Trying to escaping from a drug bust at a friend’s house his attempts end up with a conviction for murder. Due to his illiteracy, Jimmy couldn’t read the false accusations he never committed.

During the teenage years, Jimmy is already the leader of the criminal group and naturally flocked into crime. Things are going well until a gang member by the name of Ray Harris decides to betray Jimmy. Jimmy is ruthless and decides the best punishment is death, and so, he kills Ray. In a surprising twist, the son of Ray coincidentally kills Jimmy’s daughter and frames it on Dave. Sean realizes what Jimmy does, and moreover, that Jimmy has never been innocent, “You killed both of them -Ray Harris and Dave Boyle.

Throughout Memento the shifting between objective and subjective point of views shapes our perception of Leonard, Natalie and Teddy. There are two types of scenes in Memento, the black and white scenes in chronological order and the color scenes which are shown in reverse order, which eventually meet up chronologically with the black and white scenes. The black and white scenes are objective, the audience and Leonard can see all the facts and they are not influenced by Leonard’s emotions or opinions. The color scenes are subjective, they are from Leonard’s perspective and we are denied the same information Leonard is denied during these scenes.

Leonard is the antagonist because he is the evil one in the story and he wants to murder. Although Leonard is all ready to shoot Asher he thinks about his own suicidal so he starts questioning himself. As the antagonist Leonard is against everyone and doesn’t

Lennie immediately grabbed a gun he kept hidden in his room and approached the room where he heard his wife. He opened the room door and to his surprise he found a man in a ski mask raping his wife, suffocating her to death. Lennie reacted fast and shot a bullet through the intruders head, however, he was too late to rescue his wife. As Lennie approached her he received a hard hit from another intruder on the back of his head causing him to lose consciousness. Throughout the entire film Lennie is on a search to find the other man responsible for raping and murdering his wife, but he has trouble doing so because of his injury that makes him constantly loose his memory.

Leonard, the main character, is excellently played by Guy Pierce. He is constantly confused, yet still acts in a nonchalant way. Teddy (Pantoliano) and Natalie (Carrie Anne Moss) play puzzling characters, throughout the whole movie the viewer questions, whether they may or may not be Leonard’s friends.

Shelby cannot be responsible for his actions either, as they can be grossly manipulated by others as shown in the film. Leonard had to analyze his surroundings

Leonard is now trying to find and kill the person who murdered his wife to avenge his wife’s death. Carrie-Anne Moss plays a friend of Leonard, or so he

Memento is an American psychological thriller adapted from a short story, Memento Mori written by James Nolan. The story displays the life of Leonard Shelby. Shelby has anterograde Amnesia brought about by an injury to his head. He suffered this injury while confronting two people who attacked his wife at their home in the middle of the night. Leonard kills one of the attackers during the attack, although the second one escapes. Due to the injury and resultant amnesia, the last thing Leonard remembers is his wife dying. He is unable to remember new information after that day. The movie shows how he devotes his life to finding and killing the second attacker.

Is Leonard Shelby the same person he was prior to “the incident?” In the film the audience sees limited flashbacks to Leonard prior to the home invasion. We are lead to believe that Leonard was an insurance claims investigator and married, ultimately portraying an ordinary life. However, the