[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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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.