(2005-05-13) Author: Chairman Film
Title: Memento
Screenwriter: Christopher Nolan
Director : Chairman
Leonard (hereinafter referred to as Lenny) is A detective from an insurance company in San Francisco, USA, is responsible for the investigation of insurance claims. At work, he gets a promotion when he gets a claims case and discovers that Sammy, a car accident victim, pretended to have short-term amnesia to defraud insurance. (narrated in black and white; 1:40:00 Teddy dialogue)
In addition to having a good job, Lenny has a wife who loves him, and they live happily ever after. (narrated in black and white film)
One day, their peaceful life was interrupted by a sudden incident. While Lenny was asleep, his wife was raped by two intruders in their bathroom. When Lenny found out, he shot a rapist at the scene, but he was knocked unconscious by another rapist. Since then, he has suffered from short-term amnesia and can only recall events that preceded the attack and only a few minutes afterward. (Black and white narration)
Lenny's wife survived the incident, but seeing Lenny's state of amnesia was distressing and called the doctor many times. Lenny's wife decides to test whether Lenny really suffers from amnesia at the cost of her own life after learning that doctors say it is possible for Lenny to regain her memory. During the test, Lenny gave his wife an overdose of insulin, which killed her, but he didn't know it. In his memory, his wife died early in that rape. (The part about Sammy in the black-and-white narration; the black-and-white flashback at the end)
After Lenny's wife was raped, Lenny has been searching for a second rapist who knocked him out, but police don't believe the description of an amnesiac, who doesn't even exist. Police Teddy (real name John Gammel) sympathized with Lenny and helped him find the man named John G. Lenny killed John G, but couldn't remember killing him, and was still looking for this dead John G day and night. (1:40:00 Dialogue with Teddy)
Police Teddy took advantage of his position to sell drugs together with drug dealer Jimmy and others. (Teddy dialogue at 1:26:00) In a transaction, Teddy planned to take the payment of 200,000 US dollars for himself, so he took advantage of Lenny's memory loss and sought the murderer, falsely claiming that the drug dealer Jimmy was John G, and provided Lenny with file information and meeting people. address. (Black and white narration)
Lenny killed Jimmy who came to pick up the goods in a desolate hut in the suburbs. Jimmy said Sammy's name before he died, and Lenny realized he had killed the wrong person. Because Lenny often tells Sammy's story to others, people who have heard Sammy's story must know Lenny. Lenny confronts Teddy, Teddy tells part of the truth, but Lenny refuses to believe Teddy. (1:32:00)
After killing Jimmy, Lenny puts on Jimmy's clothes and drives away Jimmy's car. When passing by a tattoo parlor, he thought that he could use tattoos to remind himself of something. Teddy follows up with the tattoo parlor and tells him that he and Jimmy and others deal drugs and use Lenny to kill Jimmy. Lenny didn't believe him and ran out of the tattoo parlor.
Lenny found a note in Jimmy's pocket saying "Drop by Ferdy's Bar", so he met Jimmy's girlfriend Natalie outside the bar. (1:20:00) Natalie is surprised to see Lenny driving Jimmy's car and wearing Jimmy's clothes, but soon discovers that Lenny is an amnesiac and can't remember what happened. During the test, Lenny drank a spit beer, and Natalie felt sorry for it and decided to take Lenny back to her home to continue inquiring about Jimmy. (1:19:00)
At Natalie's home, Natalie mocks Lenny's amnesia, and in a fit of rage, Lenny hurts Natalie. Lenny was looking for a pen to write down Natalie's words, but couldn't find it. (1:10:00)
After the injury, Natalie didn't go far at all, and then returned home and told Lenny that after Jimmy disappeared, Jimmy's partner Dodd asked Natalie for 200,000. Lenny can't remember Natalie's abuse just now, and plans to help Natalie deal with Dodd. (1:07:00)
Just got out of Natalie's house and met Teddy in the car. Teddy said Natalie was Jimmy's girlfriend and they were dealing drugs together, and warned Lenny not to trust Natalie and not to continue living in her home. Teddy introduced Lenny to a place to stay, the Discount Inn. (1:02:00)
In the cheap hotel, Lenny wanted to recall her wife's past, so she called a "chicken" and told her to put his wife's things in front of his bed. (00:58:00)
When he wakes up, Lenny finds the prostitute in his bathroom and can't remember what happened. (00:55:00)
He couldn't sleep anymore and decided to burn his wife's relic (actually Memento means relic). (00:51:00)
The next day, Lenny encountered Dodd on the street looking for Jimmy. Dodd shot and chased Lenny, shattering the car window. (00:50:00)
While fleeing, Lenny finds a note given to him by Natalie asking him to go to Dodd's house and kill Dodd. (00:47:00)
Lenny arrives at Dodd's house and finds no one there. Lenny found Dodd coming home in the shower, wounded Dodd and tied him up. He called Teddy to come and help. (00:44:00)
Lenny fell asleep at Dodd's house and woke up to find Dodd tied up and see Teddy coming. Lenny couldn't remember what happened and let Dodd go. (00:39:00)
Lenny goes back to Natalie's house. Natalie thanked Lenny for helping him get rid of Dodd's entanglement, and decided to help Lenny find John G's license plate information. (00:27:00)
Lenny returns to the budget hotel and finds that the room key is missing. When negotiating with the hotel attendant, I suddenly found a note in my pocket to meet Natalie to get the license plate information, and hurried away. (00:24:00)
In the restaurant, Jenny met Natalie and got the required information. The keys to the hotel room were also recovered. (00:16:00)
Lenny went back to the cheap hotel, read the information Natalie gave him, and was sure that Teddy was the John G he was looking for. (00:11:00)
Walking out of the room, Lenny met Teddy. Lenny asked Teddy to go with him to a place (00:08:00)
In a desolate hut on the outskirts, Lenny found a picture of Teddy in his pocket. He killed Teddy. (00:00:45)
His life goal has been completed again, will his memory cycle start again? (00:00:00)
Netizen analysis:
Just imagine, if the male protagonist decides that his wife has been killed, how surprised he will be to see his living wife every time he loses his memory! The wife would have to explain it to him...
but maybe it can be understood that LENNY can modify his memory and comfort himself with the wrong answer. The insulin incident did happen, and it was after he lost his memory, but he "deliberately" remembered it as if it happened to someone else. The experiment of the electric man can prove that his memory is accumulating little by little...
The actor himself said that his memory can only be saved for ten minutes, after which all the memories of ten minutes will disappear. Then every time he starts again, he should have no idea about his amnesia. The memory still stays at the time when his wife was killed. Now he has to read the note from the beginning to understand his symptoms... But before he has made great progress, the memory will jump again. gone back!
In the movie, he mentions that he has amnesia in every person, which is obviously not in line with his own statement. The amnesia was realized after he was attacked. This problem should be cleared up again and again, and the male protagonist should keep falling into the boundless memory of himself. Repeated research.
The reason why he can tell others that he is sick just proves that he has memory! But he never realized it! ! Maybe this is normal, because there are too few memories that can be retained each time, and the time is very tight, in the memory again and again. LENNY finally remembered his amnesia.
Original part:
Let me summarize for you. Of course, there may be contradictions in the words, and there may be unclear explanations, but the general idea can still be sorted out:
first, let me say a few definite facts,
1) Lenny He must have received a person with amnesia, whether he cheated insurance or not, this person was deeply impressed in his mind.
2) The home must have been broken into, and the wife had been violated.
3) Later his wife died and he embarked on the road of revenge.
4) Neither Natalie nor Teddy is a good guy and both want to use him for something.
5) Lenny refuses to admit that the murderer is dead, he always wants to hunt down the non-existent person because that's the meaning of his existence.
Okay, let’s summarize again based on the above conclusion,
1), I think he has a mental illness and feels that he has lost his memory, so his brain will selectively forget things, you can see that he remembers it steadily I lost my memory, and I can firmly remember where the hotel is, etc. How can an amnesiac remember these things? It's amazing~
2) He got this disease after his wife was assaulted. No matter if he was smashed into the disease or he was depressed, anyway, he became ill and started to be abnormal, and then his wife died. (Poor boy)
3) Then this guy is even more abnormal and wants revenge, so there is the biggest argument, how his wife died, I agree that he killed himself by injection, he can't accept that his wife is If he killed himself, he started to fabricate his memory (why didn't this guy become a screenwriter, he's really good at making things up), well, the memory is finished, the murderer appears, chase.
4) After chasing and chasing, I ran into that "bear" (Teddy)... This guy saw, oh my god, there is a Fan Wei, fool him, fool Jimmy and get him.
5) After dealing with several murderers, I was not satisfied, and then I forgot about it, looking for a new target (really persistent), I met Natalie, and the woman also fooled him, and finally killed the bear.
From this we can see that this is a sad person, he has no courage to face the problem, he just chooses to escape from reality and memory, if he can't escape, he forgets, if he can't forget, he tampered, changed, the target appeared, well, it's OK Find the murderer. In a word, the mental illness in foreign countries is really powerful~
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