Memento (2000) — Screenplay
A man with short-term memory loss uses tattoos and notes to hunt his wife's killer, but his condition makes every clue suspect.
- Written by
- Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
- Genre
- Mystery, Thriller
- Studio
- Newmarket Films
- Length
- 156 pages
Study Christopher Nolan's masterful reverse chronology, which drops you into the protagonist's fractured perception and keeps you off-balance until the final frame. The script is a clinic in unreliable narration, using tattoos, Polaroids, and repetition to make memory itself the central mystery.
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