Memento Monomyth

I do not think it was possible for other groups to approach the mono myth in the same manner my group did because our movie, Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, has a storyline which is written backwards. Since the main character had short term memory loss, so he was only able to remember what occurred in the last fifteen minutes. Because of this the movie began at the moment where he killed the man who raped and killed his wife to the night his wife was raped and murdered. The other two movies that I looked at on the Monomyth Chart were The Interview, and The Dark Knight. The chart for The Interview is very accurate, the sequence of events in this movie are parallel with what how Campbell has said a hero's journey should be.

On the other hand the chart for the Dark Knight, I believe is not very clear and does not need to stretch over both the Dark Knight movies. The first one has enough content and a storyline that follows the monomyth. Batman's call to adventure for was long before joker, he always was trying to save people and help because the city's safety was a big issue. His refusal was the uncertainty he had about the situation with the joker and how he would go about taking him down since so little was known about him. I disagree with the fact that they said becoming batman is the first threshold, he is already batman. I believe his first threshold was when he decided to take on Lau and go to China to kidnap him. Then for the belly of the whale it seems that it should be when he realizes that he is not the strongest one in the fight and that the Joker is the one to be scared of and he has to figure out what the Joker is up to and what he wants to do. I do believe that the groups Initiation close to being accurate but in the return stage they went into the second movie but there is so much left in the first movie. Like the Joker blows up the hospital, Aaron becomes two-face and in the end Bruce clears out,  burns and gets rid of all his papers and equipment.

After reading the other monomyths I still do not feel as if my group should reconsider what we have written because our storyline and process of events occur so much from different from the others. But I would like to see what others have to say on Memento if they have seen it before.