A roller-coaster ride through a man's damaged brain!

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2002)

Unlike most movies where the director "hopes" that you can identify with the character, Memento keeps you as confused as it's main character, grasping for puzzle pieces to assemble of what has happened to him.
Leonard Shelby is searching for the man who murdered his wife, but during her attack Leonard suffered an injury to his head that makes him unable to form new memories. Everything before that day is clear (his name, his job, how to drive, etc.) but talk to him too long and he won't remember being introduced to you. Leonard (and the viewers) must piece together clues from photographs, notes in his handwriting, and tattoos on his body, to understand all that has happened to him. The director feeds all these pieces to you in reverse order... the same way that Leonard would have to work his way backwards through each clue, not even remembering when he left himself the clue.
A very interesting "who done it" that spirals you through the life and mind of one man's shattered world.