Human Intelligence In The Movie Memento

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The movie Memento (2001) was a film about Leonard, an insurance investigator who suffered from anterograde amnesia. Memento (2001) did a fair job in not only explaining the condition of anterograde amnesia but also gave readers many thoughts after watching the movie. There are many human intelligence traits illustrated in the movie varies with different characters in the film.
Leonard, an insurance investigator, who developed anterograde amnesia after an incident in his house, when his wife was attacked and killed. Leonard was long for a revenge when the police did not believe in his testimony where there were two assaulters instead of one. In order to find John G., who Leonard believed to be the other assaulters, he developed tactics to overcome

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