Creativity isn’t expensive and Nolan has proven that with his ‘cult-status’ film in 2000. Sound Editing Analysis in Memento; Security of Identity on the Terms of False Memories: Leonard's Lucidity and Stasis in 'Memento' G” is a common one, Leonard simply forgets this and begins the cycle all over again. All images property of their respective owners.© 2019 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Leonard seemed to listen at first but a note he had written on a photo of Teddy had instructed him to “not trust his lies”.Now Natalie had run the driver’s license for a John Edward Gammell, which is also Teddy’s full name. The only memories he can retain are from the distant past to the incident that led to his disability, ie, the attack at his house the night his wife was raped and murdered. It is a debate between the theories of Teddy and Leonard Shelby about the existence of ‘John G’, the elusive criminal. This led to him having short term memory loss and he could not form any new memories. When Mrs. Jankins came in to claim insurance at the company Leonard was working in he was called in to see if the case was genuine.
Even if some director had managed to conjure up such a bizarre way of telling the story, it’s highly doubtful he/she could come up with this alternate way of mixing up monochrome and color. It is really hard to believe that a cop would assist a mentally unstable person in his quest for revenge and stick with him through the suspicions and tantrums. Natalie is a waitress at Ferdy’s Bar and is shown to be helping Leonard in the beginning.
This is why Christopher Nolan is so different; he throws away the obvious under the bus so easily.Leonard Shelby is one interesting personality, an erstwhile insurance investigator, now using his trade skills to track down the man who had The last memories of his wife being killed heinously and himself getting injured during the rescue attempt keeps him alive and he consciously narrates his troubles to Teddy, the policeman and Natalie, who seemingly are willing to help him out of this distress. With Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior. Teddy also tells Leonard that the story of Sammy and his wife wasn’t real, and it was his own story that he had chosen to associate with someone else to escape the guilt.Enraged, Leonard burns the polaroid of Jimmy and writes on the back of Teddy’s pic to not trust him. In the film, he is a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia trying to avenge his wife who was raped and murdered.. or so he chooses to believe.The model turned actress who has also starred in television series such as West wing and Crime Scene plays the role of Catherine Shelby, Leonard’s wife. He has been nominated for the Golden Globes once and won the Primetime Emmy awards once. He takes pity on Leonard and assists him on his quest to find the killer of his wife.The only uncontested information we have on Sammy is that he is a retired accountant who got into a car accident which resulted in him damaging his brain.
Brilliantly made from a cinematographic perspective as well as beautifully told through the direction of Christopher, Memento really is a masterpiece of a movie and stands as among one of the best in its time.Masterfully edited to tell a story along two different time frames, the movie is fresh and appealing to an audience that is willing to engage. This is the genius behind the movie- its storytelling and how it proves the very subject the movie is based on its own audience; the power of self-delusion and the pliability of memory.The whole movie is shot in two narratives – color and black and white sequences. It was Leonard who was doing so! ‘Following’ in 1998 and ‘Memento’ in 2000 were his earlier films and the purse wasn’t quite loose enough. He claims that there were two men who broke into the house and that he killed the assailant who murdered his wife while the other clubbed him on the head and escaped while damaging his brain. The condition of Leonard makes Teddy’s theory almost believable but the character of Teddy as mentioned above, makes it impossible for the audience or even Leonard to place his full trust in his words.The character of Sammy Jankins, a former subject of investigation for Leonard during his days with the insurance company, had served as a mysterious subplot throughout the story. Leonard concluded that the problem was mental and not physical.
He was also nominated for best actor by the USA’s Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for his role as Leonard in Memento.