MEMENTO

Leonard can't remember long-term memory. The only thing that he knows is that his wife was murdered after raped by the killer. He tries to find this killer by getting tattoo about what he find out about the killer. He took picture and left some note to recognize people. The time line of this video is non-linear. It goes backwards. This kind of sequence remind me the book "My Man" This is a Japanese novel, and it has same sequence with Memento. This is about father and daughter(actually there is more than that..), and it starts from awkward moment of stepfather and daughter at the coffee shop, and the story end with when they first met. There is another movie called Wicker Park, this has similar aspect from Memento. The sequence just does not go back. The basic sequence is chronological sequence, but it is mixed with past a lot. Basically, the story is telling us that what you see, and what you experience is not everything, and even truth. What you remember is simply just your perspective, if you heard same story from another person, the story will toward to totally different direction. This is similar theme that people can find from Memento.

 It starts from present, and move towards to past. The characteristic of this kind of sequence is that makes people to assume the past by each 'present', but at the end people will realize that what we see now can not tell everything what happened in the past, maybe even truth, but also if we see our past as a third person, we might not recognize them as our past.