# Memento (2000)

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**Runtime**: 113 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Christopher Nolan
**Written by**: Christopher Nolan
**Starring**: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, Russ Fega, Jorja Fox

> *Some memories are best forgotten.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A motel room, early morning, a polaroid camera. 
A man with tattoos and a mission to avenge his wife's murder, his memories lost in reverse chronology. 
Nolan's early experiment with narrative structure still feels like a tight puzzle.

**Mood tags**: comfort-cult, cerebral, mindfuck

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.4/10 (1432382 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 83/100

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