The film, Memento, tells a multidimensional story of a man, Leonard Shelby, who suffers from a short-term memory loss disease, anterograde amnesia. He suffers from this medical problem because he was shot in the head while defending his wife, who was attacked and raped in their home in the middle of the night. Kills one of the invaders during the attack. With the inability to form new memories, one of the last things Leonard remembers is seeing his wife die. He then dedicates his life to finding and killing the second attacker. However, Leonard, being unable to store and remember new memories, develops a technique to help him remember what has already happened in his life after the head injury. He does this using handwritten notes, tattoos and Polaroid images, with notes and directions on them too. In this film released in the millennium, the director and screenwriter, Christopher Nolan, uses classic neo-noir thematic and stylistic tools to demonstrate Leonard Shelby's existential predicament regarding himself. One of the first ways this is represented is through the non-chronological order of events. The film Memento preserves no account of the consecutive order. This stylistic device is commonly achieved through flashbacks. The film goes back in time to reveal every little piece of the puzzle to find "John G" who, according to a tattoo on his body, Leonard believes is his wife's killer. The various scenes of memories and flashbacks throughout the film leave the audience feeling and feeling confused, just as Leonard himself does every day. The film is captured in a way that prevents the audience from being aware of the order of events. This also corresponds to and validates the neo-noir element of the disorien... middle of paper ...... placed in Leonard's position several times, anticipating the extent of his adversities and misfortunes. It is suggested several times throughout the film that Sammy Jankis is actually Leonard. His wife wasn't actually killed the night the attack occurred, she survived. However, the trauma he suffered triggered the disease of memory loss, with his last memory of his wife lying next to him, where she thought she had died. Leonard, in fact, killed his wife due to an overdose from insulin injections, not remembering that he had already administered the injection. This scenario serves as a counterpart to the story being told about Sammy Jankis, leaving the audience to assume that Leonard Shelby is actually Sammy Jankis all along. A predominant feature of this film is the way it is shot and edited. The narrative plot is recreated as Leonard sees it; it is backward and confusing, with many iffy gaps.