Memento Chronological Summary | Classic Explained Episode 15

[@lucasblue20]

I rewound and skipped this movie to watch it in linear order which was really eye-opening for me! So I hope this summary can offer some new insights and enjoyment! Let me know your thoughts or new insights below!!

[@StoutProper]

The DVD has it in chronological order

[@sienna_skye]

Amazing

[@umpatte0]

Natalie knew that Leonard did something to her boyfriend. He showed up to the bar in his suit with his car and the not she wrote to her boyfriend. She made a comment at some point about him having a nice suit if I recall

[@David-nd4to]

Your pocket was also another clue. Implying it’s not his pocket but jimmys.

[@phdtobe]

100% correct. She deviously aimed Leonard right at who she believed had set up Jimmy to be killed by Leonard, Teddy.

[@damianstarks3338]

This movie is a a masterpiece.

[@HowiBecameSentient]

Natalie knew he had something to do with her boyfriends death. She knew he was driving his car and wearing his clothes.

[@StoutProper]

Of course she did, she definitely knew

[@StoutProper]

Yeah he missed the bit where she comes up to the car and thinks it’s her bf Jimmy until she bends down and sees his face

[@David-nd4to]

Yes. She used him to get him to scare Dodd off

[@sambridhathapa4313]

😂😂😂

[@DannyConcepts]

what i dont understand is… why did teddy aka john g munipulate lenny into killing another JG if they share the same initials? didnt teddy stop and think what if lenny finds out hes also a john g and tries to kill him which he ultimately does? i assume thats why he told him to call him teddy but still

[@dashmania]

All teddy wanted és the money from jimmy

[@MojoMosley]

I have so much to say about this breakdown video that we will certainly discuss in part two

[@NN-mr5lw]

Impatiently waiting for part 2🙂! Love this movie, Guy Pearce is phenomenal. I wonder if Nolan gave him some clues while filming.

[@lucasblue20]

It really wouldn't be surprising if Nolan left Guy Pearce in the dark while shooting and gave him clues because, like you said, his performance is so convincing, I love this movie so much as well! I also cannot wait for part 2 haha I'm about halfway done!

[@llVIU]

as if him saying part 2 about 4-5 times isn't enough, here we have the typical youtube fanboy asslicker comment, "impatiently waiting for part 2" you talk like it's the sequel to this movie or something. Calm down dumbass, it's just some random youtuber talking about a movie. Did he pay you to post that comment or are you just his 2nd account?

[@1889AP]

Just finished the film and this vid really puts it all together, thanks

[@chaptxr]

it was hilarious when i imagined dodd coming back to his motel room to find the guy he was chasing taking a shower lmfaoooo id be so confused

[@FakeAdminZ]

"YOU HAVE TO BURN THEM" That's the crux of this, proof that Leonard was Sammy.

[@jeffstone5618]

How so?

[@dashmania]

Lies

[@iralabeouf7646]

Teddy said Sammy was a real person but was a con artist and didn’t have a wife or memory problems. Lenny lied to himself because he couldn’t live with the fact he killed his wife and changed Sammys story and said he killed his wife so he could live with himself

[@IMFLondon]

Omgosh i think you just found yourself a new and interesting concept. Reorganising chronologically messed up films!

[@lucasblue20]

Yeah haha I was also thinking it would be another cool series to do. I guess whenever a movie has a non-linear timeline, I'll make it a two-parter like this. Thank you so much for the idea!!

[@DM-pi8jj]

Awesome analysis as usual. Since I only saw this video now, i won't have to wait too long for part 2 😁

[@lucasblue20]

Damn, I’m so glad you enjoy the videos. It really means a lot, thank you! And haha yeah I guess this is a good one to find out about later, one more day now! I’m almost finished!!

[@DM-pi8jj]

@@lucasblue20 looking forward to it!!

[@andreshernandez1180]

A small observation, Teddy is a nickname for guys called Edward, so John Edward Gammell wasn’t just “throwing out” a nickname when he told Leonard to write down Teddy.

[@lenirish]

Its what his mom calls him

[@jacelinelomeli5365]

You should do the machinist and how it ties to the classic novel crime and punishment.

[@d1jezek]

it seems to me that the Sammy jenkis story has to be pretty much the way Leonard tells it and Teddy is lying when he says Leonard killed his own wife. if leonard's condition works the way we're supposed to understand that it works, Sammy's had to have as well or Leonard couldn't use that memory to repeatedly explain his own condition to himself. he basically has to start every day with this reminder or he's stuck living the confusing moment after his wife's death every morning and he's stuck at square one. he feels guilt about Sammy and that helps him feel righteous about avenging his wife but also reminds him how his strategy with the notes and the camera works. if Sammy was faking his condition, that would be the only way Leonard would remember him and that memory wouldn't lead him to any of the other stuff.

[@DannyConcepts]

no… because at the end of the sammy flashbacks… when a nurse walks by sammy.. suddenly for half a second it is leonard in his place at the mental institution so sammy is def leonard

[@jameltaylor4241]

​@DannyConcepts That doesn't necessarily mean he and Sammy are the same person, maybe its just that he identifies with Sammy.

[@kadmii]

it could be that he has some limited capacity to remember but associates some latent memories of his wife having diabetes and the way she died with Sammy, either by mistake or because he can't accept the situation. He has amnesia for sure, but just like there was a belief Sammy could learn to regain his ability to form new memories, so too could Leonard but in a jumbled, very imperfect way we know Leonard can retain some memories, because he does retain through the day an awareness THAT his wife died and THAT he has amnesia and THAT it happened from an attack on the home. He doesn't fully reset every 10 minutes, he only loses the last 10 minutes again and again and again

[@joeseaton135]

love this film and great video

[@lucasblue20]

Thank you so much my friend! It was really fun putting this together so I’m super happy you enjoyed!!

[@noseefood1943]

How did he know where Natalie lives when he went back? Did he burn the pic of his truck? Because he doesn’t recognize when he goes back to the shack. He never opened the trunk to find the $200k?

[@donaldring4650]

GREAT WORK!

[@rplayer360]

How does he remember one thing... To use the photos to remember

[@lenirish]

Habits. Lenny has been saying that he built habits to live as normally as he can.

[@lauraf783]

Nice job. Thank you.

[@lucasblue20]

So glad you enjoyed! Thank you!!

[@TjmHackedThisdevice-s3h]

Cruel people laugh at me because my memory may not be 100% ....... still, it has benefits. ❌🥰❌🥰

[@lennonseow90]

Wonderful recap. Masterpiece film.

[@eldonarbor]

Why did Lenny put on Jimmy's suit?

[@spiralbuddy]

He was trying to change who he was. He didn’t like the reality that Teddy was telling him, that he had turned into a killer.

[@RoyReyes]

this review is a blockbuster

[@pn7134]

starts at 00:53

[@aliaubreyswink6767]

You couldn’t wait a minute lmao

[@lillamy2955]

I wonder how many John G’s are there in the basement 😂

[@eml8793]

Here we go, baby!

[@lucasblue20]

I'm hyped that you're hyped! Part 2 this Saturday!!

[@thisisfutile]

In life, one of my pet peeves is that some fonts make a #1, a lower case "L" and an upper case "i" all look a straight line. At 8:54, you can see the license plate is clearly SG13 7IU (3rd character is #1 and 6th character is capital "i"). At 9:56, you can see where he writes the 3rd and 6th characters as a straight line. Then, at 9:59, you can see that she tattoos SG13 71U (the 6th character is a #1). I hate this movie because of this oversight (not really, but it bugs me and I do NOT have any OCD/ADD issues).

[@iralabeouf7646]

Why do you think it’s an oversight and not intentional? A major idea of the movie is that memory is malleable and that what we think we see/remember and what we tell ourselves is not always accurate. I think that aligns perfectly with the narrative.

[@thisisfutile]

@@iralabeouf7646 Fair enough. I just assum that most people aren't going to make that observation (again, I'm probably in the fringe of people who look for this specific issue of 1's, L's and i's). Indeed, it does fit with the movie, but doubting the writers did it intentionally.

[@hanzoxi7254]

​@@thisisfutileit was intentional, an easter egg if you will.

[@aref111]

@Lucas Blue hey bro thanks for the great video but just out of curiosity and I hope no offence to be given,, is the way you are speaking kind of an accent somewhere in the USA? or the way certain people speak? yoU speAk likE wiTH somE stresSES at THe End of youR sentencES and it has a rhythm of repeating! I stopped at the 5:10 to prevent myself from getting hypnotized!! what is that buddy?

[@sadderwhiskeymann]

My guess is that he is not yet 100% comfortable with his role as a narrator (considering the size of his channel) However I find your comment unnecessary and if you really had to stop to not be hypnotized then you're kinda gay😂

[@mateuspereira8623]

Great video

[@ridwanap6166]

yeah for the hundred times I watched it finally I understand the timeline 😅

[@Artur-Itas]

DO YOU SURF? Very, very Interesting. Dahudeeeeee. This is a good flick and the only Nolan movie 👁 like. I was lahossssst a bit from most of this but your explanation has removed some of the fog. So let's review. Leonard was knocked the hell out defending his babe from a burgal-rapist. His short term memory trauma resulted in him conflating the accidental overdose of the babe with the attack. So his life is like Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick or Sammy G. A detective uses him in a side hustle as an assassin ostensibly to aid him in his quest. This lucky streak continues until he meets another babe as luck would have it of another one of his victims. This femme fatale decides to use him herself to get someone off of her back and avoid heat. She promises too to help him in his quest. She gets the license plate number tracked to his handler Teddy yet another "killer" of his wife. He finally defeats him and takes proof but this victory is short lived and due to his short term memory the journey must start AGAIN!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. 👁 FEEL LIKE I'M ON KRAZY PILLS!!!!!!!!!!

[@MojoMosley]

Part two better blow my goddamn mind 😂

[@aftereffecter6354]

I think I just realized lenny is a john g serial killer

[@samdeal6504]

what a ridiculously confusing movie

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

agreed, it's annoying

[@andreshernandez1180]

It’s an amazing movie, but It’s not for everyone.

[@robotiger4970]

finnaly bro hahah

[@lucasblue20]

Hahaha I remember you suggesting this months ago! I'm so glad it's finally out, thank you for watching!!

[@robotiger4970]

@@lucasblue20 maybe you should put shutter island in your notes for me personally i didint like the movie but a lot of people did

[@lucasblue20]

Yeah I agree, Shutter Island would make a really interesting video, and a lot of people are familiar with it like u said. I’ll add it to my polls list. Thank you!!

[@soothingsounds70]

This is good but if @primhoodcinima did it it would be gold

[@vianelzchili]

If, you could write, what you said, in this video, from the start, to the end, it would look, exactly, like this. Omg, wtf.

[@siobhonc]

Yes...the way he doesn't say each sentence naturally but speaks in a choppy way was very weird. It makes his intonation strange as well.

[@beesh1019]

Hi

[@David-nd4to]

Nah. Teddy was lying bout him having diabetes. It’s deliberately ambiguous. To add weight to Leonard’s claim that memory is an interpretation not a record.

[@DannyConcepts]

what lmao it was his wife that had diabetes

[@David-nd4to]

@@DannyConcepts his wife didn’t have diabetes. He was pinching her thigh. Not giving her an injection

[@searchrankoptimize]

​@@David-nd4tonope! That is not good enough a reason. In fact that is most likely the director or the story teller trying to visually portray to you the analogy... Both are different persons in reality

[@nittygritty7503]

It's like you're describing the movie for children

[@ryanbobyan]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@lucasblue20]

Haha yeah finally here! I know you’ve been voting and hoping for this one so I’m super glad this one is out! Part two in two days! Thank you for watching!!

[@swashyhimself]

The plot is dumb because any sane moral person as Leonard thinks he is, would simply have a tattoo ready that says “you got you’re revenge! Enjoy your life” and remove the others after Teddy helped him. If he’s always getting half ass tattoos why is that so hard

[@ilanfriedman114]

Great summary but in my opinion you need to work on the way you speak, Everything you say sounds like individual bullet points, even if it's within the same sentence. Otherwise excellent video.

[@hag_13]

your voice is very annoying

[@luciadominguez9287]

I Loved the explanation but hated the voice :’)