Memento. Kania, A. In Livingston, P. & Plantinga, C., editors, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film. Routledge, New York, 2009.
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[first paragraph] The sleeper-hit Memento (2000), directed by Christopher Nolan, is a brilliantly structured contemporary film noir that is focused through the main character, Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), who has a debilitating memory condition. Hit on the head during a home invasion – ‘the incident' – Leonard can remember his life as an insurance claims- investigator before the incident, but he cannot form new long-term memories. Thus, every fifteen minutes or so, he partially becomes a tabula rasa afresh. This condition is explained to the audience through Leonard's recounting the story of Sammy Jankis (Stephen Tobolowsky) to explain his condition to others and himself. (Sammy was the subject of one of Leonard's pre-incident investigations who apparently suffered from a similar condition.) One of the main narrative drives of the movie is Leonard's quest to find ‘John G' – the mysterious second assailant in the incident, who supposedly raped and murdered Leonard's wife – and exact his revenge by killing him.
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abstract = {[first paragraph] The sleeper-hit Memento (2000), directed by Christopher Nolan, is a brilliantly structured contemporary film noir that is focused through the main character, Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), who has a debilitating memory condition. Hit on the head during a home invasion – ‘the incident' – Leonard can remember his life as an insurance claims- investigator before the incident, but he cannot form new long-term memories. Thus, every fifteen minutes or so, he partially becomes a tabula rasa afresh. This condition is explained to the audience through Leonard's recounting the story of Sammy Jankis (Stephen Tobolowsky) to explain his condition to others and himself. (Sammy was the subject of one of Leonard's pre-incident investigations who apparently suffered from a similar condition.) One of the main narrative drives of the movie is Leonard's quest to find ‘John G' – the mysterious second assailant in the incident, who supposedly raped and murdered Leonard's wife – and exact his revenge by killing him.},
address = {New York},
author = {Kania, Andrew},
booktitle = {The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film},
editor = {Livingston, Paisley and Plantinga, Carl},
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publisher = {Routledge},
title = {{Memento}},
year = {2009}
}

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