For a moment, if you want to know what kind of experience amnesia is like, then watch Nolan's "Memento".
If you haven't watched the movie yet, I suggest you watch the movie first, and then watch me for details. ▼
This is a movie worth watching three times. For the first time as a massage, to feel, to experience the feeling of amnesia. The second time I read the story, how a gentle woman defeated a control freak. Appreciate Nolan's craftsmanship for the third time.
If I cut two random pieces, you will know what "harshness" means.
In order to create a blue fantasy atmosphere, the male protagonist's shirt, door frame, and even the cement pillars next to it are all dark gray and blue of the same color. This color expresses stability and order, which happens to be what the male protagonist Lan Na is looking for. of. ▼
Even on a sunny morning, the small decorations in the room of the heroine Natalie (in order to avoid typing, and I like her more, I will call her the little tower) are all decorated with blue of the same color. ▼
The way the director tells the story is very innovative. Color flashbacks, black and white sequences, fine cuts, and tense atmosphere are all telling an ancient story. Why do people live?
No one wants to be a sinner
Lanna is extremely strong, yet extremely fragile.
He can do everything well, injecting insulin to his wife every day, and finding blood vessels is more professional than a nurse.
Familiar with the psychology of expression, a look, a subtle movement, can't escape his eyes.
It's easy to bring down two gangsters and a policeman. Racing, unlocking, and jumping out of windows are even more pediatric.
Even taking pictures is a master class. Teddy commented on this photo of Little Tower, calling him Annie Leibovitz (one of the highest paid photographers in the world). ▼
But no matter how good it is, it's useless, he doesn't remember.
His wife couldn't stand such a life. In the long days of the past, his wife was diabetic and had to accompany him to carry the bills, but he did not remember anything. ▼
His wife risked her own life to awaken his memory. At three o'clock in the afternoon, it was time for my wife to take insulin, and the first shot was on her arm. 15 minutes later, his wife told him to get another injection, and the second injection was on the stomach. After another 15 minutes, the wife made a last push, and he hit the third injection in the leg like nothing was wrong. Soon, the wife was not breathing.
In fact, his wife's death did awaken his memory.
Amnesia killed his wife, and he couldn't accept the fact. Whenever he thinks of it, he trains himself to imagine thousands of times, and that time it was just a pinch, not a needle. ▼
To be free from guilt is to live.
In order to convince himself, he transferred what really happened to another man named Sammy.
The "Bible" appeared many times in the film, and he liked the chapter "The Way to Salvation" in it the most. This is a bright line. The dark thread is a necklace. ▼
Necklace of Redemption
Those buried memories always crawl out of the cave.
Little Ta settled him at home for a few days. He couldn't remember how long he hadn't been lying on the sofa like this. He just picked up the remote control and remembered the time he gave his wife an injection. ▼
How to distinguish which is his real memory and which is imaginary memory? There is one detail, the necklace.
The wife's necklace has always been blurred in the front. On the eve of revenge, the wife's necklace became clear. ▼
In his imaginary memory, Sammy's wife's necklace has always been blurred, even deliberately not appearing. It was not until she died in memory of her wife that the cross necklace was particularly clear. ▼
As mentioned earlier in the "way of salvation" in the Bible, Sammy's wife died wearing a cross necklace, which means Lanna's redemption. He hopes to revise his memory through repeated imagination.
inner order
Relying on imaginary memories, we have lived a very hard life, and there are still people who use verbal violence to destroy the life that is not easy.
Police Teddy said he wanted to invite Lanner to dinner, because Lanner didn’t remember, so he ordered the cheapest vegetable soup, which showed that he had no feelings for Lanner at all.
He clearly knew that Lanner didn't want to mention his wife's death, but he always mentioned it. ▼
The memories he had finally constructed were destroyed. In his imaginary memories, his wife had died the night he was attacked, not by injecting insulin himself.
To deepen this memory, Lanner reenacted the night his wife was attacked.
He found a prostitute and did nothing but leave his wife's belongings scattered in the bedroom as if his wife had just left him. ▼
survival instinct
Those who are hungry need to find food, those who have no memory need pockets.
At the beginning of the film, he said to himself that his coat should have six pockets for photos and notes.
That's why, after he beat the drug dealer Jimmy, he made him undress as soon as possible, because Jimmy's clothes have many pockets. ▼
I saw some netizens say that it is because Jimmy's suits are very high-end, and I think there are other reasons.
One detail, Teddy compared the high-end pair of shoes, a little longer than his feet, indicating that it should be suitable for Lanner, but Lanner changed his suit and shirt, and did not expect to try shoes at all. It can be seen that it is not because the clothes are high-end. . ▼
Another way of saying that Lanner wears other people's clothes is to experience other people's lives. Once, he wore the wrong white shirt of Xiaota.
I think that wearing the wrong time was another test by the small tower. She deliberately pressed the white shirt under the suit to see if he really didn't remember. This kind of instinctive reaction in life is the most difficult to fake. Sure enough, Lanna was wearing it wrong, and she decided to use Lanna to deal with Teddy. ▼
Whether it is real or imagined, Lan Na is just living in self-consistency.
Both Teddy and Xiaota use him. Teddy is cruel. While he uses it, he also shakes Lanna's reason to live. Xiaota is very smart, and she respects Lanna's way of life.
Time and time again, Teddy debunks Lanner's imagination, reminding him that it's your wife who has diabetes, not the person you imagined. ▼
Little Tower told Lanna that we are all survivors.
On the one hand, it was because Xiaota helped her boyfriend sell drugs. After her boyfriend disappeared, she was hunted down by gangsters and the police. On the other hand, it reflects the philosophy of Nolan's film that every living person is a survivor. ▼
Anti-kill
People with flaws are not weak. Teddy didn't understand this, so he was killed by Xiaota.
He wanted to use Lanner to kill the drug dealer, so he could steal the dealer's car and earn $200,000 for nothing.
After careful planning for a long time, he first settled Lanna in room 21, and he lived in room 304 opposite. This will allow you to monitor Lanna's every move. ▼
Lanner found the fifth clue and was about to tattoo it on his hand. Teddy called and said he had new clues and that the killer was a drug dealer.
Consistent with the previous information, Lan Na wrote it down and tattooed it on his arm. ▼
It can be said that Teddy has been very careful. In order not to leave any traces, when Lanner helped him take pictures, he deliberately avoided the hotel and chose a background without markers. ▼
Teddy saw little Taluna Lanna overnight, he knew she was going to use Lanna against him, and he waited outside all night. He warned that the mother-in-law should not be touched, and that Lan Na must write on the back of the photo of the small tower, and don't believe her.
At the beginning of the film, Lanner said that you have to learn to trust your handwriting.
His handwriting is divided into two types. If he believes in, he writes seriously, and if he doesn't believe in, he writes scribbly. When Teddy got out of the car, he crossed out the sentence Teddy asked him to write. ▼
In order to erase the previous traces, Teddy arranged for Lanna to transfer from room 21 to 304.
This has two advantages. Not only can he go to Lanna's room to see if there are any notes or photos that are not good for him, but also it can make Lanna feel that it is the first time to stay in this hotel, so that he can't remember being used by anti-drug dealers. thing.
The matter of Lanna changing rooms shows that the hotel uncle is Teddy's accomplice.
Lan Na couldn't find the hotel key. What Teddy said was the same as what the hotel uncle said, indicating that there was a pass between them.
The uncle of the hotel accidentally took him back to the original No. 21. After being discovered by Lan Na, the uncle had to say that it was to take advantage of his amnesia and open an extra room for him. ▼
Teddy planned so much, but couldn't keep up with Xiaota's scheming.
She is like a confidant. She understands that living on a note is not easy, so Lan Na is willing to talk to her about his wife. ▼
She also said that she, like Lanna, lost her lover. Lanna deeply sympathized with her and wrote on the back of her photo that she could save me. ▼
Judging from this composition, Lanner covered Xiaota's boyfriend, subconsciously, to make the man disappear from the photo. ▼
With the method of "moisturizing things quietly and silently", Xiaota completely won the trust of Lan Na.
As for providing the license plate number at the back and misleading Lan Na to kill Teddy, it is a matter of course.
write at the end
I have a little sympathy for Teddy, he was a bit nasty, but he died wrongly. From Lanna's point of view, it can be understood that this is not the difference between truth and imagination, but a contest between life and death.
He destroyed Lanna's motivation to live, whether he was that John.G or not, Lanna would kill him to keep him from breaking down.
The story is wonderful and the experience of amnesia is special. Find an afternoon to revisit this movie.
Maybe everyone has unbearable memories that they don't want to keep. Later, some accepted and some changed.
If change is not an option, then we have to choose why to change.
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