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Address: Christopher Nolan.
Country: United States
Year: 2000.
Duration: 116 min.
Interpretation : Guy Pearce (Leonard Shelby), Carrie-Anne Moss (Natalie), Joe Pantoliano (Teddy), Mark Boone Junior (Burt), Russ Fega (waiter), Stephen Tobolowsky (Sammy), Harriet Samson Harris (Mrs. Jankis ), Larry Holden (Jimmy Grantz). Screenplay
: Christopher Nolan, based on a story by Jonathan Nolan
Production: Jennifer Todd and Suzanne Todd.
Warning: spoilers .
A man has a photo in his hand. The picture fades, time goes backward, from when we are shown the contents of the picture until it is taken.
A man who suffers a strange disease: it is capable of creating new memories, so it can only live through the pictures and making notes.
A man with one goal: to find the man who raped and killed his wife. But how will be able to do so? He can barely remember what happened five minutes ago.
The film begins with a dead man: the man Leonard, the protagonist, has just killed. Was he the person who was looking? Seems to be very sure of it: it has a picture of where it says "Teddy" and in the back of which says "It's him. Kill him. "
The film told backward, jumping, through flashbacks, is the way for the director to approach Leonard's disease, we know where we are, but do not know how we got there.
But Leonard remembers everything before the coup, before his wife killed. So he knows who he is, and unable to forget her want revenge. Because how will you fall in love with someone new if you do not feel the passage of time? How else does not remember the people you know?
has tattooed on his chest, "John G. killed and raped my wife "and throughout the torso" Find him and kill him. " That is the goal of his life, and that can only follow forward.
Thus, the film tells how Leonard will collect the data you have to know that his supposed friend Teddy is the person you are seeking.
All tracks that is gathered, the notes in the form of tattoo or the snapshots, which are a sign of the important things or reminders.
much importance is given to the story of Jimmy, the protagonist's mind all those people that is therefore one of the most repeated phrases is "I told you about Jimmy?". The story of Jimmy helps him and the people around them better understand their disease. Jimmy had the same disease as him. But no one believed him, everyone thought that pretending. Leonard knew the case very closely. Jimmy's wife, desperate to discover if they really pretending he put to a final test, asked him to put the injection of insulin several times in the afternoon. But Jimmy did not react, and his wife went into a coma from an overdose.
Thus, the film is less a pursuit of truth as the search itself. The truth is discovered at the beginning of the story, which really is the end of the film.
is not, therefore, the protagonist discovers the truth, then forget it anyway, but the viewer. Therefore, the end of the film, which in turn is the beginning of history, is the cause of all that has shown us.
As Leonard can not remember anything, always seeks truth. In linear time the truth is at first, but you forget and you do not know because you tell the story backwards. Thus, the viewer discovers the truth only at the end of the film: the truth that later the protagonist does not remember.
the end, during the last scene he is Jimmy discovers that his wife did not die in the attack, the rapist, she was diabetic and that he killed her and then forgot. The last thing he remembers is his wife dying, dying after the attack. Finally
is he himself who decides to find the murderer. We see that kills a man, someone who has not been really important over the plot: Leonard is fully convinced that he is John G. Therein comes
Teddy, telling the truth: Jimmy's story is theirs, who had already killed the real John G. before this, and even it was John G. That did not matter to those killed, because I do not remember.
But Leonard is frustrated and decide not to believe. Then forget it, but then decided that Teddy will be the next John G. and points his license plate as data. In the end, (the beginning of the film), he will kill as if it were John G.
So, Leonard finds its truth again and again, he always forgets. But the audience only discover in the end, which is the beginning of history.
Oedipus finds himself guilty of murdering his father and committing incest with his mother. Leonard forgets, but the viewer discovers that he is really the one who killed his wife and decides the action of the story, for it is he who consciously decide that "Teddy" is the next John G.
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