1. memory is unreliable,
2. memory is partly determined by one’s aims,
and 3. memory is essential to understanding.
19 The narration of the film provides partial confirmation
of these claims, which he calls “narrational
confirmation.”
20 Gaut then offers evidence for the
narrational confirmation of assertions (1) to (3).
Regarding (1), he claims that the film actually
confirms the unreliability of memory through
its narration.21 Memento’s narration is so complex
that remembering the sequence in which the
events are presented and the actual sequence of
the events is extremely difficult. This may seem
unconvincing to someone who has not watched
the work, but Gaut cites both ChristopherNolan’s
experience of not always knowing which scene is
next and his own; the former is based on more