so today explaining the psychology behind the 2000 film memento.
there may be possible spoilers, along with the discussion of brain injuries.
shall we begin?
the 2000 film memento, directed by christopher nolan, is about the basic psychological aspect of what your brain deals with on the daily.
christopher nolan, who also wrote the film, did a video on the basic research he did and how the movie could be explained.
lenny shelby is the main character of this film.
lenny suffers from amnesia, which is a brain disorder that causes you to lose your memory.
try to think of amnesia as alzheimer's disease or dementia, which are two other brain disorders that cause memory loss.
there's one part of your brain that is responsible for storing your memories, which is the hippocampus.
you can lose those memories along the way when you get older. the hippocampus is also responsible for spatial processing of the things around you, and navigation.
what happened to lenny during the attack was that when he was beat up, his brain was injured, not only causing to damage his brain, but his hippocampus.
the damage to lenny's hippocampus caused his amnesia, hence why he couldn't remember anything.
the way christopher nolan brings the basic premise of normal human psychology into memento is great.
you could tell that he worked on research, you could tell the actors, like guy pearce (lenny), studied the basic mannerisms of amnesia and how it affects people.
and yeah, that's my discussion on the psychological aspect of memento. :)
