[Integration] Comments on memory fragments

Conner 2022-03-15 09:01:01

Nolan, the research on the inner world of human beings is very exquisite. There is a space for Inception, and there are fragments of memory far away. The story is not complicated, but the means of expression are very clever, creating a fragmented atmosphere, allowing the audience to deeply experience Lenny's broken life and inner life, following Lenny's helplessness and panic.

The whole story is divided into 26 imprecise pieces. The last 13 fragments are flashed back and decolorized, and embedded in the first 13 positive narrative color plots. The color film realizes a sense of reality, and the black and white fragments highlight the style of the documentary. Color black and white is not interspersed and tiled, sometimes in front, sometimes in, and sometimes after.

Looking for the so-called key in the movie is indeed a good journey of exploration for the audience. The magical editing makes the content of the story show a variety of bizarre paths, some people say that it is really brainstorming.

The emotions intertwined in the complex structure make people even more incapable of not being moved. If self-deception can make me happy, I choose to live like this. We must give ourselves a reason to survive, otherwise we will be schizophrenic. But those things we insist on may just be the illusion in our own illusion. When I woke up, I looked at the ceiling and asked myself: Who am I? Then you start to remember, when those memory fragments are pieced together bit by bit, a complete and possibly not objective reality is presented before you: why am I here. Are you scared? Two photos, one footnote, fate will run wild in the maze like a Hummer that has lost its brakes.

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  • Vickie 2022-03-20 09:01:04

    When the memory is fragmented, how can we find the truth? The movie uses flashback techniques to step by step to get us closer to the truth. This movie really catches people and makes people eager to know what the result is. The suspense is very well done, and it’s a very brain-burning movie.

  • Summer 2022-03-23 09:01:04

    Nolan said in the interview, “The key to this film is that a character played by Joe Pantoriano may be the authority of truth. But his previous role made the audience feel that this person is not credible. I found that Joe The uncertainty and sinisterness that it brings to the film are truly terrifying."... Make full use of the audience's stereotypes of the actors' past roles to exert psychological manipulation on them. This is an advanced narrative technique, very good! But the problem also arises: Because the film uses flashbacks, Joe's character is already evil when he comes out. It is also out of the audience's psychology. They will speculate whether the initial impression of the public will eventually be reversed? Master Yu, the structure faintly betrayed the role.

Memento quotes

  • Leonard Shelby: When I looked into his eyes I thought I saw recognition. Now I know. You fake it. If you think you're supposed to recognize somebody you, you just pretend. You bluff it to get a pat on the head from the doctors. You bluff it to seem less like a freak.

  • Teddy: So you lie to yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it.