Memento (movie)

Memento is a 2000 American psychological thriller film. Christopher Nolan wrote and directed it. Suzanne and Jennifer Todd made the movie. The story came from a pitch by Jonathan Nolan, who also wrote the 2001 story "Memento Mori." Guy Pearce plays a man who has anterograde amnesia, meaning he cannot make new memories and forgets things every fifteen minutes. He tries to find the people who attacked him and killed his wife. He uses Polaroid photos and tattoos to remember what he cannot.

The movie shows two sequences of scenes. One sequence is in black-and-white and goes in order. The other sequence is in color and goes backward, showing how the main character’s mind works. The two sequences meet at the end to make one full story.

Memento first showed at the 57th Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2000, and came out in the United States on March 16, 2001. Critics liked it, praising its story told out of order and themes of memory, perception, grief, and self-deception. The movie made $39.9 million on a $4.5 million budget. It got many awards, including Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Today, it is seen as one of Christopher Nolan’s best movies and one of the top movies of the 2000s. In 2017, the United States Library of Congress chose it to be kept in the National Film Registry.

Cast
 Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby
 Carrie-Anne Moss as Natalie
 Joe Pantoliano as John Edward "Teddy" Gammell
 Mark Boone Junior as Burt
 Russ Fega as Waiter
 Jorja Fox as Catherine Shelby
 Stephen Tobolowsky as Samuel R. "Sammy" Jankis
 Harriet Sansom Harris as Mrs. Jankis
 Thomas Lennon as Doctor
 Callum Keith Rennie as Dodd
 Kimberly Campbell as Blonde
 Marianne Muellerleile as Tattooist
 Larry Holden as James F. "Jimmy" Grantz

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