Film Enrichment; Momento.

Momento is a 2000 American psychological thriller

directed by Christopher Nolan.

. The main actors include

• Guy Pearce
• Carrie-Anne Moss
• Joe Pantoliano

• Momento is about a man who suffers from short term memory lose using polaroid pictures and tattoo's to help him rememeber important factors such as car number plates and names in his bid to track down the person who killed his beloved wife. The movie is set in a non-linear format with frequent flashbacks occuring throughout the movie. The movie is also set in a backwards format with the end being shown at the start of the movie and the story working its way backwards in an attempt to create an enigma. The movie ends with the man finding his wife's killer and killing him in a warehouse, this answers the audeinces curiosity about who the dead man we see in the polaroid picture at the start of the movie is.

• Some of the main themes present in the movie are action, violence and romance.
• I really liked the character 'Leonard Shelby' because he was a very mysterious and interesting character.
• My favorite scene in the film was the scene where you eventually found out who killed the mans wife. 
• I enjoyed this film because it was very gripping and interesting, I enjoyed that non-linear narrative as it made the movie stand out from other drama/action movies.

Conventions	Scene example from film Crash	Scene example from other films that are similar
Love/Romance	The man is determined to find the person who killed his beloved wife and will stop at nothing to gain justice for her.	PS I love you, the man is determined to find the woman after he meets her whilst she is going for a walk.
Violence	When the man attacks and kills the man who killed his wife in the empty warehouse..	Romeo and Juliet, violence is used throughout thr movie, gun crime, physical fights etc.
Determination	The main character looking for justice for his wife stops at nothing to gain justice.	Freedom Writers, the teacher is determined to teach the troubled teenagers in abid to give them hope.
Action	Stealing of cars, use of weapons etc.	Matrix, a host of action conventions present including smashing windows.
Family	When the man is being held at gunpoint over the womans death.	2012, the man is determined to save his family from the disaster.