Indeed, it is not only memory that is lost, and it is certainly not only memory that is gained.
The most fascinating thing about movies is the creation of dreams and the presentation of memories. These two themes make Nolan play well, NB.
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60G The hard disk is almost full again, and when I turned to the active hard disk, I saw the directory of Memento again, hesitated, and left it in this book. Although it may not be fully read again.
Time moves in the past
for the first shot:
in one hand, holding a freshly taken Polaroid snapshot, shake it hard, stop to look, then shake it again, look again. The photo doesn't get as sharp as we thought, it's more and more blurry, blurry beyond recognition...
First scene:
Snapshot back to camera, blood on the ground back, bullet back in gun, dead teddy alive Come here... just for a moment, everything is annihilated
. The title always makes sense, even the worst films and directors usually try to say something at the beginning, and after watching the film for the second time, I feel that this kind of beginning shows Two things
1) Memories are like illusions, unreal, and the more blurred they become
2) The structure of the film is reversed, the end is the beginning, and the beginning is the end
Through Lenny's self-narrative, we can know that this is a man named Lenny. In a burglary incident, his wife was killed. He was also injured and lost his memory. One of the murderers, John.G, was at large, and Lenny came to seek revenge for the murderer. Lenny looks like he's capable, but we have no confidence in Lenny's ability to accomplish this task, he has no memory of what happened a few minutes ago, like Natalie giving him a beer spit in his face; he has no idea. For example, the owner of the hotel charged them both the rent. The two people who always appeared by Lenny's side, Teddy with a smirk, and Natalie with ulterior motives.
Lenny's way of replacing memory is to jot down everything that happens, with Polaroid snapshots, with pens, with tattoos. . . It may be that the director did not put digital equipment into the film in order not to obstruct the theme. For example, Lenny can bring a Laptop to record all the data, a DV to record all the process, and a DC to record all the scenes. . . Hehe, but maybe Lenny is emphasizing the inaccuracy of memory and doing things based on facts rather than evidence.
The beginning of the film (the end of the chronology) Lenny kills the last insider, Teddy, who he thought he did. G, is actually guided by Natalie's revenge for herself. And at the end (the beginning of the chronology), Lenny kills Teddy's accomplice, Jimmy, Natali's lover. He thought he was killed. G, is actually Teddy in order to pocket the proceeds of drug trafficking.
Thriller movies all love to play with details, but this movie reverses, overlaps, and clutters the details. After such processing, the first time you watch it will feel very messy, but the second time you find that the order is completely reversed, the plot becomes clear and conclusive. surprising. And this time I felt more sadness when I browsed, about the memory, which is so variable and cheap, but not so precious.
what is the truth
Memory is more self-selected, and the first brick of memory is often self-selected. If it is removed, the entire building of memory will collapse. Teddy was sentenced to death by him because Teddy had the part of his memory that he didn't want, the part of the truth. Sometimes memory is for forgetting, but remembering is what you want to remember. How many world events and facts have been buried in layers of memory. We are arrogant and arrogant, and we travel back and forth in the labyrinth of memory, lingering.
Lenny keeps saying that he doesn't trust memory, but what he lives on is the memory before the amnesia, the warm memory of his wife and family. And he made those who lost hope and ability to survive also have no memory. The promoter of the film, A Zhu, said that Lenny lost his memory and lost his ability to control himself. This poor bastard who has lost his memory cannot survive because of this.
The boss of Discount INN once said helplessly to Lenny: You remember what you have to do, but you can't remember what you did, and I am just the opposite.
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