PentHouse Films

Film: Memento

Year: 2000

Time: 113min

Rating: 8.6/10

A film of mystery and drama that tells the story of a man suffering from memory loss short term. Leonard is an insurance investigator, with the memory disturbed due to an injury to have intervened when the murder of his wife.

Leonard's life has changed completely and now lives just chasing revenge: find and punish the man who killed his wife.

The difficulty of finding the killer comes from the fact that Leonard suffers from a rare and incurable loss of memory.

Although able to remembering moments before the accident, Leonard can not remember the last 15 minutes ... Where is ... Where will ... And why ...

To keep some memories, Leonard notes the important events of your life on pieces of paper and he even a few phrases and names tattooed on your body ...

A film that is a little confusing to start playing as much with the present and the past, but to a lover of good films is captivating.

Personal comment:

Is our memory that retains knowledge, information, ideas, events, meetings. And this makes us unique heritage, assuring us our personal identity. And if we associate to maintain the memory of the past, remember that it is thanks to this structure the memory and that can think and projecting the future.

Essential for survival, is the memory that enables us to where we need to update the information needed to meet the challenges of the medium. Memory that is because we have not landed a hand on a hot plate, not approaching a dangerous animal, which stopped at the red light, etc.. We learn to cope with the environment and is the memory that updates the learned behaviors appropriate to the situation.

Some memories are best forgotten....