The narration omits the plot of lenny telling sammy's story, because these plots are always reflected in every corner of the film, as teddy said, almost everyone knows sammy's story.
The colorful plot is a flashback, narrating what happened in the past. The black-and-white plot is a narration, narrating the origin of the past. The two lines crossed when killing jimmy Grants.
Beginning:
The beginning of the whole story is naturally Lenny's amnesia. As for how Lenny lost his memory, we have no way of knowing, because we can't know for sure whether the story of Lenny's so-called "rape and murder" of his wife actually existed. Whether or not the so-called "rape and murder" story exists, the fact that Lenny was taken advantage of by Teddy is true, and more than once. We can understand from the narration of teddy at the end of the film.
We can be sure that sammy and lenny are the same person themselves. And when lenny talks about sammy, he is talking about the difference between himself and sammy. There are many things that he implies to himself, and sammy is implied to be different from himself.
We can understand that lenny's wife died of an insulin overdose, but it was actually at the hands of lenny herself. And life must go on. At this time, teddy appeared and helped lenny set countless people to kill. Through the first five truths in the tattoo on lenny's body, we can probably see some information about the "john.G" that lenny killed before.
Development:
1.lenny stayed in a discount hotel and started looking for clues. (Probably teddy called lenny here to get lenny to get rid of jimmy).
2. Someone called lenny and lenny started telling sammy's story.
3. Another phone call, lenny mentioned in the conversation that several pages of his information were torn out. (The clues on these pages should be information that can almost directly let him identify who john.G is, and it should be torn by teddy). The other side of the phone told Lenny that john.G was a drug dealer. Lenny took it down and decided to get a tattoo. lenny starts telling sammy's story again.
4. When lenny saw the word "don't answer the phone" written on the tattoo, he immediately asked the other side, but the other side hung up directly. lenny told the hotel not to access any phones. (It should be judged that the person who called lenny the most was teddy. At least he made the call. The reason for hanging up is that every time lenny starts to tell sammy's story, then the conversation after that will not have any substance. , and teddy didn't know what happened on the other side of the phone. When he heard lenny ask "who is this", he thought that lenny had lost his memory again, so he hung up helplessly).
5. Lenny didn't answer the phone, someone stuffed an envelope with the words "take my call" through the crack of the room door, which contained a photo of his celebration when he found the "old" john.G. lenny answered the phone. The other party claimed to be the police, told him that john.G found, jimmy Grants, and asked lenny to help him, and told lenny that he was in the hotel lobby. lenny found teddy in the lobby and took a picture of teddy (we have reason to believe that lenny has taken pictures of teddy in the past, maybe for some reason, it was destroyed by someone). Teddy told him where to connect and told lenny to go to jimmy Grants and said it was not convenient for him to go.
6. Lenny drives his pickup to the junction and waits for jimmy Grants in a broken room. jimmy Grants met lenny. lenny killed jimmy Grants and changed into jimmy Grants' clothes, put his clothes and jimmy Grants' body in the basement of the dilapidated house, photographed jimmy Grants' body (tell himself john.G was killed by himself).
7. Teddy came to the meeting point and told lenny all the truth. Lenny didn't want to believe it, so he threw teddy's car keys aside, got into his pickup, took out the bullet from the pistol and put it on the passenger seat, and wrote "don't believe his" behind teddy's photo. lies", burned the pictures he once took to celebrate the killing of the real john.G and the pictures he just took when he killed jimmy Grants, wrote on a note that he was about to get a tattoo: truth 6, teddy's number plate. (set new john.G). The jaguar in jimmy Grants left. (set new identity).
8. Lenny came to the tattoo parlor and told the "truth 6" that she just wrote to be tattooed on her left leg. Teddy finds lenny and tells lenny to get out of here, the police are looking for him. He prepared a new identity for lenny. lenny asked him what kind of cop, he replied that a bad cop (actually himself) introduced lenny to a discount hotel, looked for him for days, lied to him, stuffed envelopes under his door and so on, said jimmy Grants is investigated and lenny is involved. lenny saw "don't believe his lies" behind teddy's photo and didn't believe him. Get a Ferdy's Bar medal from the pocket of the Jimmy Grants that he was wearing, with "come by after.natalie" written on the back. From his pocket, he found the fragments of the two photos he had just burned. Lenny left the tattoo parlor through the back window, drove to Ferdy's Bar, and met Natalie at the door who was disposing of garbage (drugs?). natalie mistook it for jimmy.
9. lenny enters the bar and natalie tells him that jimmy Grants knows him and she knows him too. (Naturalie should have had a very bad premonition here, or had a general idea of what was going on.) Natalie didn't really believe in Lenny's amnesia, so she decided to give it a try. Made a glass of beer, let the other person in the bar spit sputum in it, and spit each other with lenny. After a while, put this beer in front of lenny and invite lenny to drink, lenny said "thanks" and took a sip. Another person in the bar sneered.
10.natalie is convinced that lenny has a problem and decides to help him (use?) and bring him home. Lenny told Natalie about the situation and the experience of his wife's "dying" at the time (these should not be imaginary. Maybe there is a certain element of imagining). natalie leaves the house and comes back soon, collects all the pens she can find, tells lenny what happened to jimmy (she's almost sure lenny killed jimmy), and asks lenny to help her kill dodd. lenny refuses. natalie said a lot of insults to lenny and his wife, lenny beat natalie in anger, natalie left.
11. Lenny tried to find a note that he had just heard, but couldn't find it. He saw Natalie coming back from the window. natalie told lenny that dodd hit her and told a story she made up. lenny decides to help her and goes to dodd, natalie tells him that dodd knows his license plate number (jimmy's). lenny goes out of the house and meets teddy in the car.
12. teddy told him that he should stay away from natalie, better to leave this place, because someone will come to him (he is wearing jimmy's clothes, driving jimmy's car, sooner or later someone will suspect him). He asked Lenny to write "do not trust her" on the back of Natalie's photo and introduced him to discount hotels. After teddy left, lenny wrote out the words she just wrote on the back of the natalie photo. Lenny came to the discount hotel and took a photo of the hotel sign.
13. lenny came to room 304, arranged everything, called for a chicken, and planned to recall the life with his wife. Following lenny's instructions, the chicken got up in the middle of the night and closed the toilet door, waking up lenny.
14.Lenny lay on the bed and touched to the left, and found no one. When I got up to go to the toilet, I saw chickens taking drugs in it. lenny let her out. Afterwards, lenny brought his wife's "relics" prepared earlier and burned them at his wife's "tomb" before leaving at dawn.
15.lenny was dodd tailed on the way back. dodd attempted to kill him, shooting and shattering the windows in the driver's seat of lenny's new car. lenny abandoned the car and ran away.
16. Teddy suddenly couldn't remember what he was running, but found that dodd pointed a gun at him and knew that he was being chased. After some escape, lenny drove away. In his pocket, lenny found a note with dodd's address and what to do next. (I don't know if it was written by lenny or natalie. If it was written by lenny, it could only be at natalie's house. At this time, he had no reason to think of teddy. If it was natalie, she didn't know the details of lenny and teddy at this time relationship, not sure if teddy will help. In contrast, it is more likely that lenny wrote it himself, because the handwriting is similar.) According to the address, lenny went to the hotel where dodd stayed, entered his room, and found a wine bottle (The murder weapon), the cat is in the toilet.
17.Lenny saw the wine bottle in his hand, but he didn't think he had drunk it. He took off his clothes and decided to take a shower, only to find dodd in the room while he was taking a shower. (maybe thinking someone sneaked into his room) lenny attacked dodd and knocked him out with a wine bottle. Bundled up dodd and put it in the closet, found the note, left a message to teddy according to what was written on the note, and fell asleep.
18.lenny woke up and found dodd and teddy came. After teddy dealt with dodd with lenny, lenny came to natalie's house and asked her what happened to dodd.
19.natalie told lenny that dodd is not important anymore. Natalie takes off Lenny's clothes, discovers his tattoo, and takes him to the mirror to see what it says. In the middle of the night, lenny got up, saw the photo of natalie and jimmy, wrote "she has also lost someone, she will help you out of pity" on the back of natalie's photo, and went back to bed.
20. In the morning, get up, lenny finds natalie. Natalie told him that today she was going to help him check john.G's license plate number, and agreed on a time and place to meet. lenny went out and ran into teddy. teddy said, "I thought you had left the country".
21.teddy invites lenny to dinner. During meals, they talk about evidence and memory's judgment of truth. (Here you can roughly see how teddy used lenny before). Teddy asked where lenny lived, lenny found the photo of the discount hotel, but couldn't find the key. Lenny went back to the discount hotel and entertained Lu Xian to bring him to the room where he lived before, and was found by him. The receptionist admitted to cheating lenny and rented him two rooms. (It can be understood here that the room that the host brought lenny to is the room where lenny lived in the black and white plot. After lenny went to natalie's house, teddy recommended lenny's hotel again (should be "again") and rented 304 rooms. According to the receptionist, he rented room 304 for about a week. As recalled here, lenny ordered chickens on the first day he moved in, left in the middle of the night to burn the relics, met dodd during the day on the second day, stayed at Natalie's house at night, and stayed at Natalie's house during the day on the third day. Meet teddy, go back to the discount hotel. It shouldn't be a week in total.) Teddy is about to write down the words of the reception, but finds Natalie's note in his pocket, so he goes to see her. Met her in a restaurant, but don't remember her.
22.natalie helped lenny find john.G, told lenny where jimmy used to sell drugs, and gave lenny the key to room 304. Lenny discovers the "truth" on the tattoo in the bathroom.
23. lenny went back to room 304, found in the information natalie gave him that the so-called john.G was teddy, and called teddy, the first sentence asked if it was John.Gammell, teddy immediately said I would be there soon (teddy is sure found a problem). lenny took off her clothes to see the tattoos on her body. According to the "truth" on the tattoo, lenny determined that teddy was the murderer, and wrote "he is the one" on the back of teddy's photo, and after seeing his own tattoo (the behavior here happened to be exactly what he said on the tattoo "Don't Trust the memory, trust the truth"), adding "kill him".
24.lenny left the room and told the receptionist to come in immediately if there was a call from teddy in the future. (He was told by the host here that he had been living in for two or three days?) It was teddy who happened to be looking for lenny.
25.lenny brought teddy to the place where natalie said (joint place) and subdued teddy. Teddy tells him you don't know who you are, you'll see if you go to the basement. lenny doesn't listen and shoots teddy to death.
26.lenny took a picture of teddy's death.
Ending:
This part is just a simple guess, guess the storyline after that.
What will Lenny's life be like?
It is possible that after he took "revenge for killing his wife", he would see the photo of John.G's death and know that he had "revenge". Help him set john.G's teddy dead and all revenge will end?
It is possible that his life after that will be the same as before, and natalie will replace teddy.......
A few questions:
1.lenny doesn't answer the phone
Maybe lenny himself has realized before that if he wants to communicate with others, he will inevitably involve his "amnesia". This is because he will think of and mention sammy in a conditioned reflex, so that more and more people will Know sammy, and he can't tell friend from foe.
2. The purpose of the connection between teddy and jimmy is that
teddy is a police officer, or an informant or an undercover agent. This should not be a big problem. But what is the teddy and jimmy joint for? People from harm? Or pocket the stolen money? Or both? Then why didn't he take the 200,000?
3. The relics of the burned wife may not really
be in the world of teddy, and all objective things may not conform to the reality of the objective world. The story might be false, and the item might not be what he thought it was at all.
4.i hate lenny
lenny said that only his wife called him lenny, and said he hated this title. This can be understood in many ways. Maybe it's the same as sammy's story, lenny is a name that belongs to people who have a close relationship. Maybe it's because too many people know about it now, which makes him confused and can't distinguish between friends and enemies.
5. The title Memento
means "relic, souvenir" and so on. The only relics that appear in the film are "his wife's relics" in the hands of lenny. This relic is in memory of his wife. This fact actually corresponds to his memory. His memory is in memory of his wife. However, we cannot be sure whether this relic is real or not. Likewise, we cannot determine how many of his memories are true and how many are false. The relics in his hands were finally burned. Does it mean that his memories will also disappear in the end, and all the so-called truths will be buried?
Comment:
Each of nolan's works is so logical and rigorous. At least I've watched "Inception" and "The Dark Knight" many times. I have only watched "Memento" twice so far, and the second time is a reverse-colored plot. I believe that there will be holes in these speculations, and there will be details that I have not considered. But after all, this is my personal achievement, just a person.
If "Inception" is like waking up from a dream, then "Memento" is both true and false. Sometimes we suddenly forget, what did I just come here for; what did I just hold this thing for; what did I just say, what did I say. But none of this is important.
Each of us is really just living in our own world. I often hear people complain that others don't understand them or something, and I always do. . Laugh without saying a word. . The protagonist is a reflection of each of us. If the external objective world is immutable, then the subjective world of each of us is changeable. As Wang Yangming said back then, the flowers in the valley, when you look at them, are so bright; when you don't look at them, they may not exist at all. This passage is an exposition of the inner world of each of us.
lenny can only remember what he wants to remember. And we too, see only what we want to see, no matter what the unchanging external world is like.
reality? the truth? All truth is only relative. For lenny, it is a kind of truth; for teddy, the truth is another form; for the third party we watch, the truth is another kind of deformation.
In my opinion, Memento reflects the coexistence of opposites between the inner world and the outer world of a person. We often hear people say, believe it or not, the truth is out there. But who does this truth belong to?
Every so-called "truth" is personal. Conan tells us that there is only one truth. His so-called "truth" may consider himself to be an absolute fact that has happened objectively, but it is only his own thing. It became the truth only because he used the so-called "evidence" to persuade others to believe in himself. And the criminal found that the "truth" described by Conan overlapped so much with his own "truth", so he admitted the "truth" in his own world.
Perhaps, this is the truth, or we can understand it this way. . .
fact? Whose fact?
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