"Hello Amnesia! Welcome home!"

I watched Memento. A fantastic film indeed. I shall now explore how it treats the subject of memory, the way it's shown throughout the movie. First of all, the first thing we should take into account is how immediate memory works, also called working memory, this being the memory we have that lets us use and manipulate immediate information. Memento messes with this immediate memory. Theoretically, we are usually able to remember 4-6 events in our immediate data base, and so, we are only able to manipulate this limited number of memories if are to stay paying attention to a different event, in this case, the movie. As the film goes by, Memento shows us several scenes, all in a non-continuous order, and so, it is imperative to remember all of them to make sense of the movie as a whole. We can't, this is the catch in the movie. We cannot remember all of the scenes if we are to watch the movie without standing up and thinking about it calmly. This produces a very interesting effect in the audience: they won't be able to remember all of it and thus, feel an Amnesia-like sensation crumbling their minds, just like the main character in the movie. This interesting technique is the one that gives the real charm to the movie, as without it, it might be considered a pretty common, yet great, crime story. Memory plays a key role, both in the presentation of the story-line as well as in the reception of it by the audience. Hello Amnesia!