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How does Memento use a flawed, unreliable narrator to create effect? Memento is written and directed by Christopher Nolan, it is based on his brother’s short story
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How does Memento use a flawed, unreliable narrator to create effect? Memento is written and directed by Christopher Nolan, it is based on his brother's short story "Memento Mori". The film consists entirely of an intricately woven pattern of flashbacks. While the black and white sequences progress chronologically forward in time, the colour scenes are arranged in reverse order. Thus the opening (colour) scene of the film is chronologically the last event in the story. The film features a protagonist who, after his wife's rape and murder, suffers from anterograde amnesia. Each scene starts with Leonard (Guy Pearce), blank and "innocent," confronting the mystery of how he got there. Leonard is forced to use notes, photographs, and tattoos to substitute for his missing memory, in an attempt to decipher what has happened to him; his method is obviously flawed. He records clues about the murderer because he hopes to have...
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