Materialism In The Movie Memento

The movie, Memento, by Christopher Nolan, is played from two points of view. There are the black and white scenes, which are played from the past to present and the colored scenes which are snips from the present to the past. The protagonist, Leonard Shelby, suffers from amnesia, which keeps him from learning new information. He received this condition after an accident where it’s thought that his wife was raped and killed. Throughout this movie, Leonard tells a story about a man who suffered from the same condition as him, and how he killed his wife because she thought that he was faking. After the incident, Leonard made it his life goal is seek down his wife’s killer. Since it was hard for him to remember anything for a long time, he took to tattooing his body and taking pictures with labels as his “memory”. As each puzzle piece was introduced, the more he added to his collection. Furthermore, he discovered that it was a man named John G. who rape and …show more content…
Ever since that year, he became an American hero, and would be taught in all textbooks and history classes. But this hero had many secrets that were omitted from history. First, he was not the only person to discover America, there were many explorers before him. Because of his status and connections, he was recorded before anyone else. Historians like to neglect this fact, because it shows that Columbus was not the first, so how can he be this American Hero? Another secret that was omitted was his purpose for traveling across the sea. He wasn’t just trying to explore, but rather conquer the unknown. He wasn’t as peaceful as the textbooks say, but rather used weapons and forms of slavery to take over the Indians and those in the new lands. These secrets, having been omitted, left Columbus in an amazing light. Without them, historians can create any type of version of him they want, and won’t have to worry about contradictions of the