Review of christopher nolans film memento

introduction to christopher nolan

christoper nolan was born in london on the 30 july 1970 he has a wife and three children he has been married since 1996 until present day. he first started to make films using his action figures and his dads 8mm camera. he went to the universtiy college of london where he studied english litrature and he graduated and made films involving reall people one of his short films was shown in 1996 at the cambridge film festival many of his films begin with you seeing the main characters hands also most if not all his films are the genre of thriller or they could be put into sub-genres of action thriller etc.

summary of event in the film memento

the main events of the film memento are that it starts of at the begining of the end then goes to the enda and you then go back in the film every fifteen minutes or so to main event of the film like him meating natiel and teddy and going to the hotel you even see him tell everyone about this man he knew called sammy who has a condition alot like his own you also find out a bit about his wife and what happened for him to get this condidtion and write at end of the beginging of the film you find otu a very vital fact and that is that leonard has already avenged his wifes death and killed john d and he lie to himself to keep himself happy.

how does the opening sequence introduce the thriller genre

the opening sequence introduce the thriller convention by leaving you questions. you first of all see a hand holding a photo of a man whos brains have been blowen out at this point you wounder why this person is holding this photo and you also wonder who exatly it is.then the picture starts to fade and that seems strange as it goes and fades more you see a man go and hold the polaroid up to the positon where you would take it out of the camera and it gose in so you see that it is going in revers this whole sequence could give you the idea of what the film is about as it gose back in some ones memory of what has happened . you then see a dead man the one that was on the polaroid time is still going in revers at this point and you still dont actually know who these to are at this point leaving you with questions


Key scene1- thriller convention

this is the scene where leonard finds out that he had tattoed to himself that he should never answer the phone but for many scenes before this you see him answer the phone or at least be on the phone he wrote this message to himself to remind him not to answer the phone because his achellies heal as the protagonists of the film is that he has a fifteen minute memory and he wont be able to know if the person on the other end of the phone is telling the truth also it makes us wonder who it is.


Key scene 2 thriller conventions

in this scene you see leonard and natalie in bed she is a sleep and leonard is there talking about the last thing he can remeber and about his wife and how he misses her and how he is annoyed that he can not rember things so if he can not remeber things that are important how will he heal after the loss of his wife he shows his weakness again as the protagonist with memory loss you also have slow music that is quite in the back ground he then has to go to a picture to remember the girl in the bed with him and remembers that she will help him find his wifes killer forgeting that he has already done so.


opinnions and recomendations

the narrative of this film is a bit teddious and could possibley be improved also there could possible be less flash back in the film so they could of gone a bit futher back in the film and played it up to then point they were at then they could play a little bit further back and play from there to the next point because you would still get the same feel that leonard got in the film from his condition i like other films that christopher nolan has done like the prestige and the dark night and batman begins but this film of his does not appeal to me as much.
by Naomi Wilson