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Original title: Memento

Year: 2000

Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Director: Christopher Nolan

Music: David Julyan

Country: USA

Length: 116 min.

argument

Memento is the story of Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator, who suffers amnesia syndrome since his wife was raped and murdered at home. Leonard only is able to remember what happened

during the last two minutes. But you do have memory to remember having this problem, and adapt as you can live with this situation: post-its continually writes with important data, take pictures and tattoo their bodies with key messages. Because he seeks revenge on the murderer, and that does not forget.

How

The film is not told chronologically, but as two different stories, one that moves forward in time, and another back, to be interspersed. This causes confusion and live with great mental effort to try to understand what is happening.

Memento is for me a film of chaos: the argument is spun until the last frame, the long jump, going forward, going backwards, the main character desperately needs to resort to tricks to remember, others characters take advantage of this fact to trick ... At the same time, it is unclear whether the protagonist himself might have committed the murder or not. Memento stir us out of familiar territory in which we know to manage time, space, memory. It shows how we depend on the time variable in shape, and how this change in form (the time back or interleaved) affects us.

Neurosis And at the same time, it is a beautiful metaphor for what is neurosis.

If, as the protagonist, we had virtually no memory, we would live in the here and now, not 'remember' what troubled us at some point in our lives. But, like him, we continuously strive to keep that memory alive, to live what was already past, to suffer unnecessarily. Leonard tries to 'remember' by means of letters, photographs and tattoos and makes us question: how many notes, photographs and psychological tattoos we strive to piggyback and not to forget? And at the same time: how much energy for this purpose, not to lower the guard? We live in tension so that we do not forget what happened in the past and is no longer current.

made this reflection, we might conclude that we are more than all this information that we recorded, but there is one fact in the film that reminds us that Leonard is deceived and manipulated by Natalie to get rid of Dodd. Neurosis has been and is necessary to some degree, to avoid being hurt by others and to survive in the world. But living neurotically can lead, as does the protagonist, to lose perspective and perform erroneous actions, which do not fit with our reality, but we can not discern. That is why we hurt without realizing it.

Memento also shows how our body stores accurately the information most important to us. In this film a reality through tattoos, and our lives have tattooed on the body our main memories in the form of tensions, blockages or especially delicate and sensitive areas. As the movie says: "The important information is carried in the body."

Travel

The protagonist embarks

a trip back to the fateful day of the murder, seeking to heal consummating his revenge. And it does not have a plot, with data pointed to by your body loose. To this end, has a fundamental note "Remember Sammy Jankis" tattooed on his body. This leads me to wonder the possibility of unraveling our journey vital, once known our existential storyline, living the moment, doing things because it is written in algúnsitio (mental) that have to do in a certain way. Breaking the argument, give it a whirl and dissolve, changing, as a way to get rid of their psychological burden. Because "the memories are an imagination, not facts."

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