Examples Of Suspense In Memento

Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan is a film of suspense. The main character of the film is Leonard, who suffers from short term memory loss. Teddy is an undercover officer who then later tells Leonard that they already found and murdered his wife’s killer. In the last scene Teddy confronts Leonard and says, “So you lie to yourself to be happy. There’s nothing wrong with that, we all do it.” Teddy then begins to list the incidents that occurred; Leonard’s wife surviving the assault, her refusal to believe her husband’s condition, and how she was diabetic. This confuses Leonard and he begins to perceive what Teddy is telling him in his own memory. Leonard has a flashback of trying to inject insulin into his wife’s thigh, but then conditions