The film tracks Leonard Shelby (played by Guy Pearce), an ex-insurance investigator suffering from anterograde amnesia. Because Leonard cannot form new short-term memories, Nolan structures the movie using two alternating timelines to put the viewer directly into Leonard's disoriented mental state.
In the context of digital preservation, "Memento" refers to a groundbreaking HTTP protocol that enables what is often called "time travel for the web."
One of the most useful resources for analyzing Memento is a scene-by-scene index. Scholars and fans have meticulously numbered each segment. The color scenes are typically labeled with letters (A through V), and the black-and-white scenes with numbers (1 through 22). The chart below outlines the key content of each segment.
: By presenting the story in reverse, the audience is placed in the same "epistemic position" as Leonard. Like him, we enter every scene without knowing how we got there or why we are interacting with specific characters.
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