The film Memento tells the multidimensional story of a man, Leonard Shelby, who suffers from a short-term memory loss disease, anterograde amnesia. He suffers from this medical condition because he was hit in the head while defending his wife, who was attacked and raped in their home in the middle of the night. He kills one of the invaders during the attack. Unable to form new memories, one of the last things Leonard remembers is seeing his wife die. He then devotes his life to finding and killing the second attacker. However, Leonard, unable to store and remember new memories, develops a technique to help him remember what has already happened in his life after a head trauma. He does this using handwritten notes, tattoos and Polaroid images, with notes and directions as well. In this film released in this millennium, director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan uses classic thematic and stylistic devices of neo-noir to demonstrate Leonard Shelby's existential predicament with regard to himself. events. The film, Memento, retains no trace of consecutive order. This stylistic device is usually achieved through flashbacks. The film goes back in time to reveal every little piece of the puzzle to find "John G" who, based on a tattoo on his body, Leonard believes is his wife's murderer. The various scenes of memories and flashbacks throughout the film leave the audience with a feeling and experience of confusion, just as it happens to Leonard himself, every day. The film is captured in a way that prevents the audience from being aware of the order of events. This also fits and validates the neo-noir element of the Disorian...... middle of paper ......re repeatedly put in Leonard's place, previewing the extent of his adversity and misfortune . It is suggested several times throughout the film that Sammy Jankis is actually Leonard. His wife was not murdered the night of the attack, she survived. However, the trauma he suffered triggered a memory loss illness, with his last memory of his wife lying next to him, in which she thought she had died. Leonard, in fact, killed his wife, due to an overdose of his insulin injections, without remembering that he had already administered the vaccine. This storyline fits the told story of Sammy Jankis, leading the audience to assume that Leonard Shelby is actually Sammy Jankis all along. A predominant feature of this film is the way it is filmed and edited. The narrative plot is recreated as Leonard sees it; it's backwards and confusing with many uncertain gaps.