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otnemeMemento The movie Memento leaves many questions unanswered. Even upon several theatrical, VHS, and DVD viewings of the movie it remains unclear what happened prior to the movie’s end, or more truly beginning. There is something missing from the movie, perhaps a crucial piece of evidence that evades even the most detailed viewing. In today’s world of technology, though, there exists an interaction between movies and the internet. Memento’s web page--aptly named www.otnemem.com and created by Jonathan and Chris Nolan-- does not focus as much on the happenings of the movie, but more importantly, deals with how Leonard came to start his endless man hunt. By combining the viewing and surfing experiences, a more clear picture develops. Like the movie, the web page’s set up is both unique and important to the overall experience. Upon entering the site, the viewer is presented with a clipping from a local paper which details the murder investigation of both Teddy and Jimmy Grantz. Throughout the article there are eight outlined words-- body, foul, suspicious, Leonard, photographs, forgetful, local and lastly revenge-- that, once clicked on, progressively unravel the mysteries of Leonard’s past. While the article describes what happens after the credits have rolled, the eight sub pages exist more as a preamble to the events of the movie. This setup is much like that of the movie, which switches between one story that runs backwards (the color scenes) and another set of scenes that runs in chronological order (the black and white scenes). During the course of the movie the scenes switch off about every five to fifteen minutes (Leonard’s memory span) until the last scene where both parts meets. It is clear that the Nolan’s have a knack for blending two temporally different chain of events into one seamless opus. The newspaper article, without the sub pages, states only several useful facts. It reports that a picture of an unidentified dead body was found in a hotel room along with a handgun, many burnt and fragmented documents, the recognizable photographs of Teddy and Dodd and the pictures of four men named Marko, Noam, David and Miguel. The latter pictures are presumably homage’s to members of the staff as is evident upon viewing them.
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