This trailer is for the movie Memento where the main character Leonard Shelby, has anterograde amnesia, which prevents him from making new memories. Leonard is able to recreate his identity daily, he leaves himself clues to tell him anything important that he needs to know. This enables him to add or destroy memories whenever he wants. The movie is also portrayed scene by scene, in reverse, which helps give off the idea of fragmentation. There are no constants. Lyotard suggests that postmodernism is continually redefined, and this is clearly visible in Memento. The clues Leonard leaves for himself daily are the signifiers and the actually events that they represent are the signified, however the two are not always related accurately. There is no sense of morality, Leonard is only looking for revenge time and again, even though he does not remember his revenge after he achieves it. It’s a vicious cycle, he spends his life reliving the same events, hunting down the same guy, and remembers none of it.
