Momento

Momento

            After watching a movie in straight subtitles the whole time, I thought thtat this movie would be a lot easier to analyze, but boy was I wrong. I pay more attention while reading the subtitles, like I am actually in the movie. It is similar to court side seats at a basketball game. You’re so close to it, it seems like you’re in the game. This movie was a lot harder to realize the theme and plot because there are many ways to look at it, but the color was very easy to see.

            I will start off with the color. I could cheat and use the one that a student used on the discussion part on the class website, but I will not. I am going to reference the flashbacks as the use of color in the movie. Whenever the movie refers to one of Leonard’s flashbacks, the color changes and it is always in black and white. I believe the reason for this is that he is referring to an older time of his life, and it being in black in white makes the viewers realizes that it is in a past time. But this is where it gets complicated. While watching these flashbacks, I cannot tell if it is a good time he remembers, or an experience that has shaped the person he is today because it shows a little bit of both.

            For theme, I believe it is telling the viewers to not to take memory for granted. With Leonard’s disadvantage he is disabled in a couple categories, but he always refers to his memory. I think that this is trying to portray the message that you just have to find your happy place, and usually this will be from a past experience and you will have to look back on it. Some people have diseases so they cannot remember their past, and we need to realize that our memory is not just a storage place. This is where the plot come in. the plot works up to this as saying just because someone has a disadvantage, doesn’t mean they can’t do something. You just you to use what you have, like your memory.