Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Memento....A Monomyth?
My group watched the movie Memento. This is a movie in which you only know what the main character Leonard knows. You are given no back story to anything as you get placed right in the middle of everything from the start of the film. I believe that had this movie been similar to a normal one that went in chronological order, it might be able to fit the chart better. While looking at other peoples' charts I could easily follow how their movies went. For Memento this is not easy. We had to leave a few spots blank simply because we didn't know the typical background information about many aspects of the movie due to the setup. Since this movie is created going backwards in time, our group tried to fill in the chart backwards. Unfortunately, this didn't work as easily as we would have liked. It seemed that parts of the movie fit the chart in both directions. I think that a movie like American Sniper has a slightly more clear cut sense of the mono-myth theory, but is similar to Memento in that it is being portrayed from a real life incident where you did not get that much information besides what was shared through Chris Kyle's experiences. In other movies such as The Interview, the mono-myth was definitely present. Simply watching the movie Memento was a confusing experience because I was trying to fill in blanks that were impossible to fill, but filling in the chart was just as hard. Overall, applying the mono-myth ideology to Memento was difficult as I expected, but filling in the chart helped me organize the movie and more sense out of it.
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