Christopher Nolan’s 18 – minute analyses of the timeline of the film ‘Memento’ (2000)

*If you want to skip to get to the drawing of the timeline then go to 4:00.

‘”Feel this progression further and further back in time” – Christopher Nolan

It’s really interesting how Nolan’s idea to tell a story from ending to beginning,
The objective perspective of the movie and the subjective perspective, the forwards narrative and the backwards narrative meet to end or conclude the movie or chronologically technically the middle of the movie.

Colour sequences are subjective as the audience is in the protagonists head all the time, knowing what is going on. Black and white sequences are objective the audience is not in the protagonists head, obscuring the view of the audience visually and mentally creating mystery, a puzzle, a conundrum.



Why the 1980’s and how it links with my target audience?

since 2016 we have seen the emergence of vinyl LP’s, 80’s fashion trends, cassette tapes, also in pop culture for example Netflix’s Stranger Things, Mad Max remake (2016), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (August 2020) and synthwave which is a music genre inspired by the decade which involves a synthesizer which was a popular instrument used during the early 80’s new wave/synth pop. The 80’s has inspired other artists music and music videos.