Memento - Opening Scene

I think the director did a great job drawing the audience into the film...if you had not read the story.  Having read the story, I kind of already understood what was going on with the photo and the dead guy.  Looking at the opening pretending not to know what is going on, this is a great opening!  I think creating the movie backwards was brilliant!

Memento - Not much below the surface analysis

I have to agree with his analysis of the movie.  I think that if you watched this movie multiple times, there wouldn't be much that you would have missed.  The director did a good job drawing the audience into the movie but in my opinion it's not the type of movie I would watch multiple times.  You can see that Lenny has a condition that makes it easy for him to be a target of manipulation and he is easily confused.  He even begins to make his own story at the end of the movie by making "Teddy" the new "killer" of his wife that he must seek revenge on.  He really could make this movie go on forever.

Memento - Remembering Her

This scene shows that Lenny had real memories of his wife, however I think he was also confusing his real memories with distorted information given to him by Natalie and Teddy.

Memento - Natalie Scene

This was the pivotal moment in the movie where I really realized that everyone around Leonard was manipulating and taking advantage of him.  In the beginning of the film, we are made to believe that Natalie is the victim and was seeking help from Leonard but we see here that Natalie is only using him.  I believe she purposely hid the pens in the  house so that Lenny couldn't write down what she was saying to him.

Christopher Nolan On Character & Perceptual Distortion In 'Memento'

This breaks down Christoper Nolan's perspective on the characters and the distortion we view in the film. He starts off expressing that this is not only a story based on a freaky instance, but on a mental state that actual happens to a lot of people. He also touches upon how the actors felt playing the characters they did. He says it couldn't have been told chronologically, it would be a completely different story of a man being abused mentally by the people around him. It was better to deny the audience all of the information in order. By putting it in reverse we make him a hero. I agree with this, we see him trying to take control of his condition  by making ways to remember. Overall, I thought this was an interesting video to why Christopher Nolan did everything the way he did.

Memento - best scene [HD] (Natalie Scene)

Memento - Remembering Her