Leonard Shelby uses Polaroid photographs to deal with his Anterograde amnesia in the film Memento .
Christopher Nolan 's Memento ( 2000 ) contains a distinguished depictions of anterograde amnesia , in that the character Leonard Shelby is trying to identify and kill the man who murdered Shelby 's wife , and does so through a system of writing crucial details related to the search on his body and on the blank spaces of Polaroid photographs.
Anterograde amnesia