Discussion on Memento

Write a 500 word response to the prompt below. Your response should use three (3) direct quotes with MLA
citations (at least one quote from a primary source
and one from a secondary source linked on Slate or in the lecture slides. You
may also use an outside source if it is reasonably academic- no Wikipedia).
Source
-the movie Memento
-https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/memento-2001
-https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a1564/memento-mori-0301/
In a 2010 blog for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert writes, “Mr. Nolan’s drama
is ironic, comedic and violent, but every act is vital to completing a cinematic
jigsaw puzzle of who you can and cannot trust…Memento as a film is a theater of
manipulation but the devices engineered to conceive the effect of the film aren’t
necessarily manipulative in and of themselves.”
Compare the narrative structures of both “Memento Mori” and Memento.
You may want to look at the plot structure used in each, how conflict is established and what resolution is
offered by each? Do you as a viewer feel manipulated by the plot devices employed by the Nolans? Why or
why not? Above all, identify which
medium is the best way to tell this story.