Lenny Shelby used to be an investigator of an insurance company, and his job was to prevent those frauds that defrauded insurance money from succeeding. When his beloved wife was raped and killed, he was unfortunately hit in the brain by the murderer's accomplice. From then on, he suffered from a rare amnesia: he remembered everything before the incident, but after that he could only keep it in his memory for a few minutes at most.
In order to get on with his life and avenge the tragic death of his wife, he used tattooing, notes, polaroid snapshots and other odds and ends to preserve his memory, collect clues and launch a difficult investigation. ? During the investigation, Lena met a vulgar barmaid Natalia, who seemed to know something that Leonardo was interested in, and Teddy, who claimed to be his former good friend, but looked furtive and full of malice.
After peeling the cocoon, the truth is ready, simple but cruel. Lena killed some people. In the end, Teddy was not the real murderer, but a target that Lena wanted to kill. Teddy provided a clue to make Lena a killing tool, and Lena's wife was not killed by others, but was injected by Lena.
Extended data:
Memento's flashback is much more extreme than traditional flashback.
Its opening is equivalent to the ending of an ordinary movie: the protagonist kills the bad guy with one shot, but all the shots are reversed, such as the glasses that fell to the ground flying back to the face of the shot victim, the pistol jumping back to the protagonist's hand from the ground, and the bullet retracting into the gun chamber. Of course, this technique can't be used in the whole movie, otherwise it will be like the sound when the tape is rewound, and no one can understand it.
The film traces back from this refreshing opening scene, each paragraph is about five minutes, and there will be one or two identical scenes at the beginning of the previous paragraph and the end of the latter paragraph, which will make the audience tie a knot in their hearts.
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