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Memento (movie)

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Memento
Logo
Directed byChristopher Nolan
Screenplay byChristopher Nolan
Based on"Memento Mori"
by Jonathan Nolan
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyWally Pfister
Edited byDody Dorn
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byNewmarket
Release dates
  • September 5, 2000 (2000-09-05) (Venice)
  • March 16, 2001 (2001-03-16) (United States)
Running time
113 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5–9 million[3][4]
Box office$40.1 million[5][3]

Memento is a 2000 American psychological thriller film. Christopher Nolan wrote and directed it. Suzanne and Jennifer Todd made the movie. The story came from a pitch by Jonathan Nolan, who also wrote the 2001 story "Memento Mori."[6] Guy Pearce plays a man who has anterograde amnesia, meaning he cannot make new memories and forgets things every fifteen minutes. He tries to find the people who attacked him and killed his wife. He uses Polaroid photos and tattoos to remember what he cannot.

The movie shows two sequences of scenes. One sequence is in black-and-white and goes in order. The other sequence is in color and goes backward, showing how the main character’s mind works. The two sequences meet at the end to make one full story.[7]

Memento first showed at the 57th Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2000, and came out in the United States on March 16, 2001. Critics liked it, praising its story told out of order and themes of memory, perception, grief, and self-deception. The movie made $39.9 million on a $4.5 million budget. It got many awards, including Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing.[8] Today, it is seen as one of Christopher Nolan’s best movies and one of the top movies of the 2000s. In 2017, the United States Library of Congress chose it to be kept in the National Film Registry.

Cast

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References

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  1. ↑ "Memento". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Memento (2000)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Memento (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on August 9, 2022. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Memento (2001) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on 2023-04-02.
  5. ↑ Mottram 2002, p. 177.
  6. ↑ "Memento (2000)". AllMovie. Archived from the original on January 22, 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  7. ↑ Klein, Andy (June 28, 2001). "Everything you wanted to know about "Memento"". Salon. Archived from the original on June 15, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
  8. ↑ "The 74th Academy Awards". oscars.org. Archived from the original on October 1, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2023.

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