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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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