Memento
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Like the films listed, Memento demands a lot from the audience. Being passive means you end up missing an important part of the experience of watching a film like this. The movie is told backwards, to illustrate the plight of the protagonist, Leonard (Guy Pearce), who lacks short-term memory. This condition was caused during an attack where (according to him) his wife was killed and his brain was damaged. Since Leonard remembers all the events that occurred before he was attacked, he is on a quest to avenge his wife's death.
The problem with being on a quest and having only short-term memory is that you can easily forget that you just finished what you started to do. Even though Leonard uses a system of Polaroid photos and tattoos to keep track of what he's doing, it's up to him to record whatever he considers important. At the moment of making a snap judgement, if he fails to find a pen, or if he's out of film, or if he just choose to not record the information, then he's out of luck.[1]
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