Memento (2000)
Figures
Characters
- The character of Leonard Shelby as a detective
Form & technique
- The film's overall narrative structure
- The color and black-and-white timelines
Tropes
- Leonard's tattoos and handwritten notes
- Leonard's inability to form new memories
- Leonard's final decision to lie to himself
- The audience's emotional allegiance with Leonard
- The Polaroid of the dead "John G." (Teddy)
- Natalie's manipulation of Leonard
- The revelation that Leonard's "Sammy Jankis" story is his own