Revision on What to Choose, What to Choose?

     Well, I have now watched the movie Memento for the first time this past Friday. It was a very good movie, but it was kind of difficult for me to understand it all fully. I think I need to watch it a few more times so I can hopefully better understand it.
     As far as classic noir characteristics, there of course was the scenes that were shown in black and white, and the Neo noir twist on it is of course the colored scenes. There is also the classic noir factor of the fragment and non linear narrative way of organizing the scenes. Within the movie you of course have the protagonist Leonard, whom is also partially the detective in the film. It has the crime that we have also come to tie in with noir as well. Something that is very frequently used in the movie, are the flashbacks. The whole movie actually consists of constant flashbacks from present to past, since the movie is told in a backward sequence. The odd thing about this movie is that the "detective" which again is also the protagonist has had an injury which has caused him to have a form of memory loss, or memory dysfunction, so the clues he finds can't necessarily be trusted 100%. This movie has lots of classic and Neo noir qualities and should be a good choice for this final research paper.
     At this point I'm a bit confused about the movie, but apart from that I found the movie to be very entertaining and I'm glad I finally watched it. Now onto the paper.



Galt.John."A Cognitive Analysis of the Movie Memento, A Lesson in Cognitive Psychology." Rev
of Memento, dir. Christopher Nolan. Associatedcontent.com. Web. 20 April 2011.

Hurd, Dr. Robert. Christopher Nolans Memento-Analysis of the Narrative Structure of a Noirish
Revenge Film. Johann Wolfgang Goethe U, 23 Feb. 2003. Web. 20 April 2011.

Nolan, Christopher. Memento and Following. 3 Queen Square London:Faber and Faber Limited,
2001.Print.

Woodruff, Elizabeth. "Memento--An Analysis of the Presented Amnesia." Rev of Memento, dir.
Christopher Nolan. AssociatedContent.com. Web. 20 April 2011.