"Memento" viewing notes and analysis

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The colorful blood shot made it disappear, and then everything went back, recreating the murder scene in
black and white. Wake up in a cheap hotel,
colorful Teddy looks for Lenny, and meets at the door of the hotel (the driver’s car window is broken). Lenny took Teddy to the broken house (the car with the bullet in the car was Lenny's) and shot him (Teddy said, You don't't who you are...That's who you were. Lenny didn't want to go to the basement with Teddy, Unwilling to face the true self).
Check the room in black and white (about Sammy's tattoo on his hand) in
color and write after Teddy's photo to kill him, talk to the owner of the hotel in
black and white, and the phone rang, pick up the
color cafe and wash his hands (about Sammy's tattoo on his hand), get Teddy's information, Comparing with the tattoo on his body, I think he is John G. In the
black and white phone call, Sammy mentioned in
color. See Natalie. She gave him the information of John G. (Natalie said: But even if you get rvenged, you're gonna remember it, you're not even know it happened.) Lenny recalled his wife; Natalie gave him the address (the broken house, where Jimmy and Teddy died) and returned the keys.
Talking about his career through Sammy in black and white phone.
Color Teddy invites Lenny to dinner (Teddy said Notes can be unreliable). Lenny found out that he didn’t have the key. The owner used his short memory to rent two rooms to him (304 and 21). The
black-and-white phone talked about Sammy’s symptoms, shaved his left leg in
color and woke up in Natalie’s room. It was an appointment at 1:30. meet
black and white phone comes Sammy test
Color went to Natalie's room and asked about Dodd. (The second time it was mentioned that someone had misled him and let him kill the wrong person) Natalie said that she had lost Jimmy; she offered to help Lenny. Lenny talked about his wife in bed, and wrote at the back of Natalie's picture that she can be trusted (the first line has been crossed out). The
black-and-white call said that Lenny recognized that Sammy was not a physical condition and was promoted.
Color wakes up in Dodd's room and finds that Dodd has been moved into the cabinet. Teddy arrived to help put Dodd
in black and white phones continue to talk about Sammy
color in Dodd bath home, pick up the Dodd
black and white hang up, to prepare for the tattoo
color Dodd chasing Lenny, check the paper to Dodd's room
black and white pattern features 5 ready
color where a similar plant (later known something was burned and spent the night), drove away Dodd was chasing
a black and white telephone rang, I asked who
place a similar color to the plant, incineration wife relics (Lenny say probably tried this before)
black and white pick Telephone, tattoos (mentioned with my condition, it's really tough I can't keep it all in mind at once, I have to summarize the different sections)
Colored prostitutes were taking drugs in the bathroom and were driven away by Lenny. Packing up his wife’s belongings and going out on a
black and white phone call, I concluded that John G was a drug dealer (in one go) and
checked in in a hotel in color, and asked a prostitute to simulate the scene on the
black and white phone where Sammy’s wife went to see Lenny.
Colored Teddy in Lenny's car (Teddy said, That's who you were …You don't't who you are…and said about Natalie, telling Lenny not to believe her), write down Don’t believe Natalie and cross it off. There is a note behind Teddy's photo that I can't believe him.
I saw the phone call "Never anser the phone" in black and white. I hung up the phone in
color and looked for notes at Natalie's home. Natalie go home, lie Lenny himself Dodd played, Lenny offer to help
black and white phone rang again
color in Natalie's home and her quarrel, when Natalie's injury was beaten Lenny (Natalie said to use his)
black and white hotel owners say the police to find Lenny
color Go to Natalie's house and remember about his wife (the police do not chase because they think the person does not exist; Lenny said, I remember; Sammy's tattoo appears again).
The black-and-white phone rang again, and the letter came in from the bottom of the door.
Colored At the bar Natalie was sure that Lenny had a problem (drinking phlegm).
Black-and-white answered the phone.
Colored. Seeing the note, went to the bar to find Natalie. The
black-and-white phone talked about how Sammy killed him. His wife (the last sentence, what drug dealer?)
tattooed Feature 6 in the tattoo shop in color. Teddy followed up to the tattoo shop and told him that bad police were playing tricks on him. (Photo burned by Lenny). Driving past the bar was considered Jimmy by Natalie.
Black and white packed his things, walked out of room 21 to see the police (later Teddy), took a picture of him, and wrote Teddy. Go to the broken house and kill Jimmy, put on Jimmy's clothes.
Color As Lenny flipped the photo, the black and white picture turned to color. Teddy rushed to pretend not to know Lenny, and was seen through by Lenny. After a conflict and conversation between the two, Lenny burned Jimmy's photo, wrote Don't believe him after Teddy's photo, and drove away Jimmy's car.


The sequence of the story should be like this:
Lenny is an insurance discriminator in San Francisco. He met a fraud case named Sammy and successfully saw it through and got a chance to get a promotion. Later, in the middle of the night, her wife went to the bathroom and was raped by two men in the bathroom. He shot one on the spot and the other wounded his head, causing him to suffer from short-term memory disorder and escape. But his wife survived. His wife has diabetes. In order to use her husband’s love to cure or test her husband’s disease, the wife continuously asked Lenny to inject insulin for her and eventually died. Lenny could not accept this fact, and the memory of his wife being raped was too strong, so she grafted the two together and tattooed on her body "Wife was raped and killed", and continued to strengthen in the future, forming "inertia" . So he began the process of revenge for his wife.
Through Teddy, Lenny learned that the man was named John G, and successfully avenged him with his help. But the meaning of Lenny's life is to find John G, so he refuses to think that he has revenge. And Teddy also thought that Lenny was good for him, so he continued to help him. Teddy called the hotel where he was staying (the black and white part of the film) and directed Lenny's investigator to the drug dealer. Teddy and Jimmy had a drug deal and wanted to monopolize 200,000, so they lied to Lenny to say that Jimmy was John G, and made Lenny kill Jimmy and put on his clothes. After the goal was achieved, Teddy appeared. During the quarrel between the two, Teddy explained the truth. Lenny was unwilling to accept that life had lost its meaning, refused to accept the fact that he could not be believed on the back of Teddy's photo, and wrote down his license plate number as a feature to identify John G6, and then drove away Jimmy's car. Lenny, who was wearing Jimmy's clothes and driving his car, was mistaken for Jimmy by Natalie. He went to the bar to find Natalie based on a note and went to Natalie's home. Natalie followed her boyfriend Jimmy in drug trafficking. Her missing boyfriend got her into trouble. She decided to use Lenny to clean up the trouble (ie Dodd) and offered to help Lenny find John G. Natalie used the license plate number Lenny gave her to find the so-called John G's information. Lenny mistakenly believed that Teddy was John G, corresponding to the tattoo on her body, and took him to the broken house (where Jimmy died) and killed him.

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Memento quotes

  • Natalie: Get rid of Dodd for me. Kill him. I'll pay you.

    Leonard Shelby: Are you crazy? I'm not gonna kill someone for money.

    Natalie: What then? Love? What would you kill for? You'd kill for your wife, wouldn't you?

    Leonard Shelby: That's different!

    Natalie: Not to me, I wasn't fucking married to her!

  • Leonard Shelby: Hi. Uh, Lincoln Street?

    Waiter: Oh, you just take the main road...

    Leonard Shelby: Hang on, let me write this down.

    Waiter: Oh, it's easy. You just...

    Leonard Shelby: Trust me, I need to write this down.