In fact, it is a suspense film, which is just to exercise the ability of logical thinking. Some people describe it as follows: the whole story is divided into 26 fragments, the last 13 fragments are flashed back, and they are shot in the form of color films. Added to thirteen color episodes and turned black and white to accentuate the documentary style. Each of the last thirteen fragments is divided into two halves, and the order is reversed.
If that's all there is to it, it's not a big deal. Guy Ritchie's films have roughly the same effect. They are nothing more than letting people in the fast-food age get intellectual entertainment by finally "understanding" the seemingly labyrinthine logic. It's like Yes, it is meaningless to count one's own hair, but if it is counted after all, it is a proud achievement after all. Moreover, in order to lower the threshold for viewing, the director of "Memento" also consciously arranged many suggestive dialogues, which made the plot somewhat lengthy. If it must be true, the credibility is not without problems.
What makes the individual feel particularly interesting is the so-called "short-term memory loss" in the movie: he can only remember what happened within ten minutes, but after ten minutes he completely forgets it. In order to let life go on, the male protagonist Had to rely on external memory means such as tattoos, notes, Polaroid snapshots, etc. to preserve their memories.
I have some doubts, this inspiration may come from "One Hundred Years of Solitude". García Márquez made all of the Macondos suffer from amnesia in that famous novel, and in order not to forget, the Macondo had to write names on everything with a brush dipped in ink: The same goes for tables, chairs, doors, bells, walls, beds, pots, livestock, poultry, and plants. The plaque on the cow's neck is an example: This is a cow, which should be milked every morning to produce milk, which should be added after boiling. Coffee, coffee with milk... "They live in a reality that is difficult to grasp. This reality is temporarily retained by words, but once people forget the meaning of words, it will escape, and no one can do anything about it." .
In fact, it is more than just the Macondo people. If the time span of memory loss is extended to a hundred years, after all, everyone in this world is a patient with "amnesia", and the memory of the entire human being is nothing more than relying on various No one can guarantee the reliability of the so-called memory, which is inherited by external memory means, and everyone lives in a real life that is difficult to grasp. The protagonist in Memento thought he could figure out the "facts" with reason and instinct, but he failed, and a small mistake made him a thousand miles away. García Márquez used a soft-colored potion to save the Macondo, and after drinking the potion, people's memory suddenly became clear, "Standing in the center of the hall, I saw that everything around was absurdly marked with names, written Serious nonsense, tears welling up in my eyes."
The question is, is there such a potion in the world? If not, if the whole world is really just a legend, how can we be sure that we are not obsessed with absurd names and serious nonsense?
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