The black and white sequences proceed in chronological order, while the color sequences proceed in reverse chronological order. The movie alternates between color and black and white sequences. He devotes his life to finding and killing the second attacker. He kills one of the attackers during the attack and one of the last things Leonard remembers is his wife dying. This is a complex story about Leonard Shelby ( Guy Pearce), a man whose ability to make new memories is damaged when he is struck in the head while confronting two people who are attacking his wife ( Jorja Fox) at their home in the middle of the night.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. However, each time he meets them, he has no idea who they are, why they are helping him and if indeed they are working toward the same goal as him. Over the course of a day, Leonard is assisted in this mission by a few people seemingly independent of each other, including a man named Teddy and a woman named Natalie. Leonard's current mission is to find and kill his wife's murderer, who he believes is a man named John G., a name which is tattooed on his body. Some of these coping mechanism are to have a system of where to place things, talk to people face-to-face if possible rather than on the telephone as to be able to gauge their true intention, take Polaroids and write copious notes, the most important of those which he tattoos on his body so that they become permanent. He has learned to cope with his memory loss through dealing with a man named Sammy Jankis, a person he investigated professionally who also had short term memory issues. He remembers his life prior to the incident, such as being an insurance claims investigator. Shelby has short term memory loss resulting from an injury he sustained which was associated with the murder of his wife.
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